Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recipe for Yorkshire pudding. Following is the way to make it. However, we make it in an electric oven. Experiments will have to be made to suit local conditions. Make a batter of 2 well-beaten eggs, 1 cup of milk, 1¼ cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of cold water. Mix well. Pour fat from roast into pudding pan, placing pan back in oven about four inches below upper element turned low. When fat is sizzling hot, pour batter in quickly and return to same position in oven. In ten or fifteen minutes it should...
...spectacular earnings report of Chrysler's tough, chipper K. T. Keller, who, in spite of a 54-day strike in the crucial last quarter, showed a 1939 net of $36,879,829, nearly twice 1938's. The market has been flicking salt on many other excellent 1939 statements, regarding them as eulogies of past business, irrelevant to earnings prospects now. More immediate news from Detroit was not so bullish: production was dropping below 100,000 cars a week, while dealers still had a premature stock of about 400,000 new cars on hand...
...Convention, meeting in Columbus, where the United Mine Workers were also gathered (see p. 19), sent Mr. Lewis its felicitations and an invitation to come talk. Mr. Lewis went. In no pie-in-the-sky mood, he voiced a layman's proposition which any theologian worth his salt could turn upside down: "Before men can worship, they must eat." Said Preacher Lewis: "I believe in God and the Christian church. I believe any country devoted solely to materialism lacks something. You can draw your object lesson from Germany. . . . The church in Germany has lost the confidence of young...
...M.P.s took this with loud cheer and a grain of salt. Minister Cross cited acute German shortages: petroleum, iron, cotton, copper, wool, oils, fats. He reminded the House that there was in Germany an "abnormal desire to convert currency into goods from 'fear of future inflation. . . . Important steel works may have to suspend operations for lack of raw materials. Many factories making rubber are closing for lack of raw materials and others are working below capacity. There is a shortage of accessories. . . . The textile situation is acute...
...been combatting truck competition by resuming an old practice of running "redball" (fast) freights, freeing the tracks for them and sending them as much as 500 miles in a night. During 1939: Union Pacific began to run one from Portland, Ore. to Boise, Idaho, another from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, another from Denver to Kansas City. Southern Pacific started trains running overnight to Yuma and Phoenix, Ariz, from Los Angeles, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe scheduled redball freights from Chicago to Texas in 24 hours, Chicago to Kansas City overnight...