Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burlap is the "wrapping paper of the wholesale trade." The U.S., even in normal times, consumes more than 500,000,000 lb. of burlap a year. Bulk foods-grains, raw sugar, coffee, salt, livestock feeds-are bagged in burlap; so are cotton, wool, fertilizers, chemicals, countless industrial products. In wartime it is also needed for sandbags and camouflage fabrics. As raw jute, or as manufactured burlap, 99% of it originates in India, and 85% of that comes from around the steaming Ganges Delta in Bengal Province. In no other part of the world where acceptable jute can be grown...
...lively, jump-loving clientele to provide for. And don't think Frankie can't play slow music well. I heard him do the blues last week, and when it was over the customers were just babbling incoherently in admiration. For them he was the cock of the roost, the salt of the earth, the cream de la cream...
Great-Grand-Daddy. Henry Ford is 78 and a great-grandfather, but he is still lively, curious and productive. His shoulders are stooped by his years, his neat salt-&-pepper suits hang loosely on his spare limbs. But his body is still tough, his bright eyes dart restlessly as the fingers of a machine. The Ford Motor Co. is, as ever, a one-man show...
Planted wherever lettuce will grow, celtuce grows with beanshoot speed. Its pale green stalk is tastiest eaten raw with salt. Best way to cook it: boiled, seasoned with salt & pepper, served with butter or "vinaigrette; or baked au gratin. The young leaves qualify for salads...
Franklin Roosevelt, who thrives on salt air, missed the fishing trips prescribed in peacetime by Rear Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, the White House physician. He missed his regular dips in the White House swimming pool, for which even weekends were now too crowded, and the relaxation of an Old-Fashioned before a leisurely dinner. He was more subject to head colds, had more trouble throwing them off. But he still kept his weight down to 186, could still cast off his burdens and get a night's sound sleep; he could still laugh. If he could get away...