Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Referring to TIME, April 6: You don't mean to say that Author Rex Stout takes sulphate of ammonia and nitrate of soda internally, do you? We use these substances to fertilize vegetables in our neighborhood...
...does Mr. Stout. Says he: "Recipe for a good beard: spread on sulphate of ammonia and nitrate of soda, sprinkle with beer, and rake well...
Present tin cans are about 98.5% sheet steel, 1.5% tin. (A recent WPB order has reduced the tin content of future cans to 1.25%.) By washing and shredding the cans, then treating with caustic soda and other chemicals, it is possible to extract about 25 Ib. of tin oxide (readily smelted to a grade equivalent to Straits tin) per ton. The detinned sheet steel, once despised and used only for rough castings such as sash weights, is now in big demand by scrap-hungry steelmakers...