Word: springs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People with high blood pressure, or some diseases of the heart and kidneys, are often forbidden to use salt. Last spring the Foster-Milburn Co. of Buffalo thought it had found something harmless that would give food a salty flavor. The new product, Westsal, contained lithium chloride (table salt is sodium chloride...
Actually, the competition for earning a basketball scholarship at Kentucky is pretty stiff. Each spring and summer (basketball is a year-round proposition at Kentucky), as many as some 200 eager candidates dribble in to work out with the varsity. Rupp selects about a dozen who fit his requirements as the "cool pro type." They get board, room, tuition, dry cleaning, laundry, books; $10-a-month spending money and rigid Rupp discipline. Boss Rupp, who wears brown suits because he thinks they bring good luck, is even fussy about his players having dates...
...require federal action (e.g., public works projects) unless the total reached four to five million and was "sustained for some time." But he saw no sign of that now. The importance of the more-than-seasonal January slump, he said, cannot be gauged until the seasonal pickup in the spring. (The boom still had a good head of steam. Heavy construction awards for the first seven weeks of 1949 topped $1 billion, up 53% from...
...Putative Medal. For the first half of the book, the story hops through the tense spring before Operation Overlord, landing with disarming casualness on its characters in their individual postures and predicaments...
...letter mailed along with the pledge cards. Teele mentioned the inevitable flood conditions this spring as a reason for giving generously. He also called upon the 2700 faculty members and the 4000 employees to make their donations through Harvard in order to complete the quota here...