Word: sapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hearst is making money again. The greatest vegetable growth in publishing history-which William Randolph Hearst watered with his father's fortune, wrapped in his country's flag and dunged with an unerring taste for the lowest vulgar denominator-is once more full of sap, and blossoming with green and glossy banknotes. Soon the "Hearst empire" expects to be out of hock. From Maine to California last week came the evidence...
Derived from pine-tree sap, the powder is a cheap (less than $5,000 per mile of 40-ft. road), quick road-builder. It works something like sizing in coated paper; a mixture of about 1% of Stabinol in ordinary soil prevents water from penetrating in sufficient quantity to soften it. A resin-stabilized road stays so dry that even when it is covered with a layer of water a truck driven over it throws up a trail of dust. Stabinol does not waterproof sand (because sand lacks a binder to make it solid) and it does not work...
Natural shellac is produced in much the same way as beeswax. It is a resin secreted by insects called Laccifer lacca. After feeding on the sap of certain cultivated Oriental trees, the insects coat the tree twigs with an exudation called "lac" (from the Sanskrit word laksha, meaning 100,000, referring to the thousands of insects in a colony). Indian natives scrape the lac off the twigs, heat it in cloth bags, strain off the melted shellac. The final product is a flaky substance that dissolves readily in alcohol and, when spread on a surface, dries quickly to a hard...
...guide lists 20 common, edible jungle plants and tells how to prepare them. General rules: eat nothing bitter unless you know what it is; avoid plants with a milky sap. In emergencies only, eat raw termites with the wings off or boiled, dried or fried beetle grubs. Eat anything the monkeys eat. Eat the monkeys...
...jiving brothers gave their usual assortment of hot vocals, and added an original feature in a patriotic vein entitled "Sap Up the Japs." After they finished their encores, the master of ceremonies, Mickey Alpert, arrived and introduced Arthur Blake, another of the evening's stars...