Word: replenishment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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City children were drafted for farm work. Komsomol boys & girls mobilized for tree cutting to replenish the lost coal resources in the Don. Peat and refuse were burned in furnaces. The scythe and sickle reappeared in grainfields. Horses (once-scorned symbols of kulak individualism) replaced tractors. A trade-union investigator was acclaimed a national hero when he found enough rusting scrap metal to make "450 light and medium tanks...
...large quantities of vitamin C (found in oranges and lemons), frequently develop muscle weakness, even though they eat plenty of fresh fruits & vegetables. With this clue in mind, Du Pont doctors gave their workers two vitamin C tablets (ascorbic acid) a day, along with common salt tablets, to replenish the salt lost in perspiration. Result: cases of heat exhaustion, formerly four or five a day, disappeared, even when the temperature soared to over 100 degrees. The pills, said Dr. Foulger, "should prove useful in steel mills, foundries, and shipyards, in the engine rooms of ships, and among troops...
...waterways added only 175,000 bbl. a day. Until new transportation miracles could be performed, the East was out of luck. Even under this week's rationing system, the East will still use some 1,400,000 bbl. a day, including 250,000 bbl. a day required to replenish its low reserve stocks...
Many had written to Washington ("hundreds of thousands of letters," said one WPB official) demanding to know why, if the Government needed tin to replenish dwindling stockpiles, it didn't come and get it. WPB's Bureau of Industrial Conservation admitted that the long-delayed nationwide campaign to salvage tin would soon get under way, could not say when, how, where the detinning would be done. The only positive, encouraging word came from harassed metalmen themselves: detinning of used cans is a perfectly feasible if not profitable operation...
...January, which is usually the slack month of the year, the shop was able to sell as many bikes as had been sold in the preceding six months, but now very few new machines can be obtained to replenish the stock as it is depleted...