Word: saccharinely
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...Monsanto, technological upheavals were an old experience. When roughhewn John Francis Queeny formed the St. Louis company in 1901 (he named it Monsanto after his Spanish-Portuguese wife), it was for the purpose of making saccharin. In rapid succession he branched out into medicines and industrial chemicals and dyes. By 1928, when his son Edgar Monsanto Queeny took over, Monsanto had four plants, was grossing a comfortable $6,150,000 a year...
Since sentimentalists in great numbers are always among even such intelligent audiences as TIME'S readers, you have done me a great service by reviewing The Pursuit oj Robert Emmet [TIME, Feb. 23] as though it were a curl-up book suggestive of saccharin and Irish honey. For this I am truly and deeply grateful...
...People ignorant of scientific method, says Author Baker, are "apt to imagine that a substitute for sugar would be discovered by a research undertaken for the purpose of finding a substitute for sugar." Not at all, he snorts; saccharin was actually discovered by two chemists engaged in a wholly irrelevant attempt to make orthosulfobenzoic acid from orthotoluene-sulfonic acid...
...week still fighting, still strong-but taut, unhappy, sour. Much changed is war-weary Japan. Rice is rationed. Meatless days are a patriotic duty-only blubbery whale meat is on the free list. The production of warming sake (rice wine) is discouraged. Sugar has been replaced by long-forbidden saccharin in many commercial foods. Bitterest of all to the nervous, twitching Japanese is the shortage of cigarets...
Monsanto was founded in 1901 by John Francis Queeny, a St. Louis drug salesman. He figured he had sold enough remedies and condiments to be able to make money manufacturing them, scraped together $5,000, began making saccharin. He gave the company his wife's maiden name because he planned to keep on peddling drugs under his own. The company got to its feet slowly, did not down European competition in selling drugs to U. S. drug stores until...