Word: spearmint
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Since then, scientists have produced a spearmint with lemon flavor, bigger tomatoes, peaches, strawberries. Dr. Blakeslee began to be harassed by letters from bald men and barren women asking if his "miracle drug" would grow hair or insure fertility. These impertinences irritated him so much that several times he almost wrote a letter to the newspapers...
There is one good reason why ball-minded Harvard men will be cheering for the underdog this time, despite their stand in the last Civil War. It is not because the owner of Juicy Fruit and Spearmint was rich enough to buy a sore-armed Dizzy Dean; not because of Big Bill Lee, the speed-baller with the movie profile. Both of these have shown fight--Dean, whose fast ball has passed on and who now pitches with his heart; Lee, who took the mound on four out of five days during the pennant spurt. Rather it is because...
...business of growing plants in water is centuries old. Long before the Christian era it was believed that plants got all their sustenance from water. In 1699 a natural historian named John Woodward grew spearmint, potatoes and vetch in water from springs and rivers. First experiments which involved adding nutrient chemicals to the water are credited to a German named Knop (1859). Growing commercial crops in water is another matter. At Berkeley, Dr. Gericke aimed at producing tank crops which would economically compete with or surpass soil-grown crops. So successful was he that several California vegetable and flower growers...
Tide, marketing tradesheet. investigated the drugstore buying habits of Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, reported: "Mr. Farley buys Squibb toothpaste. He also buys Squibb Shaving Cream. He's a heavy user of Listerine and pretty regular on Wrigley's (Spearmint). He never buys patent medicines...
Millicent Jordan (Ann Andrews) is giving a dinner for Lord & Lady Ferncliffe, visiting social lion and lioness. To it are invited Socialite Dr. & Mrs. Talbot, a brutal financier named Packard and his wife who "speaks pure Spearmint," Carlotta Vance, a dated theatrical beldame, and Larry Renault, a has-been film star. Into this tranche devie, from the minute the invitations are telephoned, steps tragedy. The film star, lover of the Jordans' daughter, is made to realize he is through. Packard ruins Mr. Jordan, determines to get a divorce from his wife, who is in love with Dr. Talbot...