Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instead of diversifying Celotex's product, he took a flier in sugar, bought up swamps and plantations in Florida and Louisiana. Depression took the Florida properties and in 1932 Mr. Dahlberg's Celotex went into receivership. At this point, looking far from Napoleonic, Bror Dahlberg met quiet Wallace Groves...
Utrillo partisans could not deny that he often uses postcards as departing points for paintings of Paris street scenes which he knows well. But they could think of other Utrillo inspirations besides postcards. Among the earliest were lumps of sugar soaked in absinthe which his mother tossed him when he was ten to shut him up. By the age of 15 he was drawing steady inspiration from gin and whiskey bottles. By the '305 he had moved on to lamp fuel, mentholated alcohol, petroleum, benzine, eau de cologne, ether, with opium and hashish on the side. In 1936 London...
...only rich but apparently pretty well satisfied. Iron, steel, machine-building and chemical industries dot the Donetz region. Kharkov, birthplace and longtime capital of the Soviet Ukraine, is an industrial city specializing in farm equipment. Instead of growing only wheat, the Ukraine's rich, black soil now produces sugar beets, flax, cotton. Fully 96% of the land is now collectivized. From the Ukraine come some of the Soviet's best-known figures: Alexei Stakhanov, author of the speed-up system, Maria Demchenko, champion sugar-beet raiser, Valentin Kataev, Soviet author. The Ukrainian language, outlawed by the Tsar...
Some products sell particularly well in depressions: neckties-because they are a cheaper way of sprucing up than new suits of clothes; cans-because canned food is generally cheaper than fresh. From an announcement last week by the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange, it appears that coffee may also belong in this special group. As it has in several depression years since 1929, U. S. coffee consumption last year set a new high. The 1938 figure was 14.38 lbs. per person, up 1.34 lb. since...
...been fairly well identified (alpha-hypophamine and beta-hypophamine), which appear respectively to influence uterine contractions and blood pressure. Biochemist James Bertram Collip of Montreal's McGill University discovered a hormone of the middle pituitary (appropriately called intermedia) which affects, though it does not exclusively control, the blood sugar level...