Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment he halted, got to his knees and divested himself of gear that he had been carrying on his back. Then he rushed forward and with a violent motion threw a potato masher grenade into the trench. As the officer rushed away smoke rose from the trench. Then bits of dust began kicking up around the officer from a machine gun on the far flank of the trench which the officer had not been able to see. We watched him crawl back, put on his gear again and then collect his three...
...seen living costs bursting through existing controls and he is suspicious that the new subsidies for tea, potato growing, clothing, textiles and dairying will not solve the country's insistent economic problem...
...bright new future for the sweet potato was revealed in Alabama last week. At Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Lamar Minis Ware, professor of horticulture, demonstrated a surprising array of new concoctions he had produced from sweet potatoes-candy bars, taffy, cookies, breakfast foods, ice-cream flavoring, piecrust flour, milk shakes...
Bertrand Russell, philosophical hot potato of U.S. campuses (TIME, Feb. 1, et seq.), let it be known that he could not support his family in the U.S., would therefore return to England. As a jobhunter he had been turned down, he said, by Harvard, Columbia, N.Y.U. and the Universities of Chicago and California...
...this a picture of Governmental bungling? It shows a carload and a half of potatoes dumped by the War Food Administration at the Vincennes, Ind. municipal dump. Republican Congressman Gerald Landis of Indiana charged that 37 carloads of potatoes, worth $60.000, had rotted in Vincennes' storage plants. He demanded an investigation. WFA, anxious to make a molehill out of the potato mountain, said that most of the 37 carloads in Vincennes would yet be saved, that only the carload and a half are a complete loss. Elsewhere in the nation, only 50 of 6,422 carloads of Government potatoes...