Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More sugar (sugar imports rose as German submarines took a licking; Franklin Roosevelt suggested that soon sugar and coffee need no longer be rationed...
...inspectors dressed as fishermen visited Gunnison, checked up on the automobiles at trout streams, made the mistake of leaving their own car unguarded while they ate in a Gunnison restaurant. They departed with 1) severe intestinal disturbances presumably caused by doped food, 2) an automobile damaged ($200 worth) by sugar dropped in the gas tank...
...Punjab farmers hoarded their grain, thereby made the bad situation worse. (The price of Punjab village brides had gone up, a sure sign of spreading inflation.) Some maharajas put their elephants out to pasture, or tried to sell them, because elephants in captivity usually get bread as well as sugar cane...
...years ago he started the western end of the Alva Adams tunnel, a 13-mile tube 13,000 ft. beneath the crest of the Rockies. The Adams tunnel Government project intended to carry enough water from Grand Lake to Estes Park to irrigate 615,000 acres of Colorado sugar beets and to supply 900,000,000 k.w.h. of electricity. War stopped the work...
...chief wartime advantage of home food drying is that it requires no sugar, jars or pressure cookers. Moreover, thanks to the armed services' extensive use of dried foods, improved methods of dehydration have lately been developed. Biggest improvement is "blanching" (steaming) of vegetables before they are dried, which deactivates the enzymes that are a prime cause of spoilage, bad flavor and loss of food value...