Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whatta dey wanna go messin' around faw? Whatta dey wanna scrape up da choon gum of fa da sidewalks faw? Maybe dey wanna have a Park Avenoo over here instead of Broadway. Leave it ta hell alone or it won't be Broadway no more. Put up a sign dat says spit out your choon gum folks, dis is old Broadway; spit er out. Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone...
...payment, Russia will fork out cash and some finished products, and make up the balance by shipping vast stores of raw materials that the U.S. badly needs. Thus the U.S., which will scrape the bottom of its manganese and tungsten deposits in three years, will be able to stockpile these from Russia, along with high-grade molybdenum, chrome, mercury, zinc...
...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, tough coat...
Second Team. Worse luck for the Jap was his inability to scrape together enough air strength at any one place to stop the" Allied air power that kept hitting him in every spot. Last week, when Lieut. General George Kenney decided to force a showdown for air control over central New Guinea, the Jap took the worst licking he has taken yet in the air. He had massed a strong force along the 35-mile-long chain of airfields at Wewak. Over this nest U.S. planes roared. Said Kenney's deputy, Major General Ennis C. Whitehead: "The attacks will...
...from a mere $3,600,000 in 1939 to an estimated $650,000,000 for this year. This geometric expansion during a period of high income and excess-profits taxes has of necessity occurred without a corresponding increase in working capital. Like other U.S. aircraft companies, Consolidated can only scrape together enough cash to meet its payroll for two to three weeks at a time...