Word: sardes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plant-by-a-waterfall in Windsor, Vt., not far from Bachelor Gallowhur's 2,000-acre farm, is producing Skat at the rate of 5,000,000 bottles a month. Among its big customers is the U.S. Coast Guard: shore-patrol horses are sprayed with Skat to repel sard flies...
...organized labor's best brains, had sold the War Department the idea: if workers could fraternize with soldiers on soldiers' terms, there might be greater effort on the assembly lines. In Atterbury, Reuther led his 250 shop stewards and committeemen to waiting combat carriers. In the Sard's mess halls the newcomers dined heartily; marched to barracks. Lights went...