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...keep restless stomachs constantly occupied, Dr. Winkelstein rigs up a quart-sized can high over each patient's bed, fills it with lukewarm milk to which a level teaspoon of soda has been added. One end of a long, latex tube attached to the bottom of the can is swallowed by the patient. The tube, which is very soft, and scarcely larger than macaroni, is easy to swallow, does not keep the patient from sleeping, can even be used in the day time while he sits in a chair. The milk drips into his stomach constantly, its flow controlled...
Most housewives, meanwhile, were taking rationing in their stride. Bakers, candy makers and soda-pop makers (cut to 70% of 1941 use) got along with substitutes, complete elimination of some lines, and good old American ingenuity. But restaurants and hotels (slashed to 50% of 1941 consumption) howled for more...
Girl Jerks. To replace drafted male soda-fountain dispensers, a Syracuse ice-cream factory has opened a Soda & Sundae School for girls. Graduates must be able to make a "MacArthur Sundae," consisting of vanilla ice cream, blueberry and strawberry sauce, toasted coconut, whipped cream and a small American flag...
...able to make plans for the future." (Taft's age: 52.) Essayist E. B. White wrote in Harper's: "We are the tough old campaigners-a little puffy round the girth strap, faltering a little at the top step of the long stairway, subsisting on bicarbonate of soda and ephedrine sulphate, our pocketbooks lined with silver and our back teeth with gold, but ready to go forth again to distant peninsulas against old enemies...
...places to go and things to do. She can catch one of a number of trains back. If you go to visit her without means of automotive transport, there is a limited number of prospects before you. Two, in fact. Visiting the corner drug store for a soda and walking around the dimly lit and grassy shores of Lake Waban. The latter type of entertainment is recommended for them...