Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were granted furloughs. Great was our rejoicing. We went to all parts of the country.. . . The country not only seemed to have changed. It had changed. People were complaining of rationing, the shortage of luxuries ... it was disgusting to us. Some of the Australians had not seen a potato for a year and a half. I talked to a man in a defense plant getting $380 to $420 per month. His job of inspecting kept him busy only four or five hours a day. Any attempt to do other work brought rebuke.... At another plant No. 8 copper wire...
Bald, rumpled Foreign Minister Alberto Guani of Uruguay, en route for a visit to the U.S., paused last week in Rio de Janeiro's swank Copacabana Hotel to give a tip on a new trend in South America foreign policies. Over ham, potato salad and agua mineral he told reporters...
...most famed Negro scientist; in Tuskegee, Ala. His age was uncertain: he was born of slaves about 1864. Coal-black, sad-eyed, fragile, white-polled, he spent most of his life in his Tuskegee Institute laboratory (originally assembled from scrapheap oddments) exploiting the possibilities of the soybean, peanut, sweet potato and cotton. From the peanut he developed more than 300 synthetic products (including cheese, soap, flour, ink, medicinal oils), from the sweet potato more than 100 (including tapioca, shoe polish, imitation rubber). "When I get an inspiration," he once explained simply, "I go into the laboratory and God tells...
Auto Ordnance production is still only a drop in what seems likely to become a vast dry-pressed bucket. After the last war poorly processed dried foods collapsed like a dehydrated potato. This time, better processing, the economics of more food for less money, and great world need all favor the tablet-food industry...
Knee-high, banjo-eyed, potato-nosed Barney Google and his wonder nag, Spark Plug, were to U.S. kids in the '20s what Superman is today. Barney Google ("and his goo-goo-googly eyes") was a 1923 song hit that sold more than a million copies. Three Barney Google musicomedies toured the U.S. for two years; a toy manufacturer sold $1,000,000 worth of Google and Spark Plug toys and dolls; many a Google catchphrase entered the slanguage ("Horsefeathers!" "Heebie-jeebies"; "Jeepers Creepers!" "Youse Is A Viper"; "Bus' Mah Britches!" "Time's a'wastin...