Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week quietly announced the first U.S. campaign of economic warfare designed to win conquered natives to the United Nations' cause. Over $5,000,000 of civilian goods, said OWI, had been purchased with Lend-Lease funds for shipment to French North Africa. Some 6,000 tons of sugar, kerosene, green tea, matches, newsprint, cheap textiles and clothing, medicines, etc., are already en route, 7,000 tons more are awaiting shipment and "additional civilian supplies of many times that value" are to be purchased soon...
...dosages of 500 mg. a day for eleven patients still sneezing in Oberlin's lushly pollenized air (count: 80 - sneezing begins at 15). After a few days all except two felt fine. An asthma invalid became "astonishingly vigorous and healthy after one week." (But asthmatics sometimes improve on sugar pills - sometimes their illness is largely mental.) In a burst of bravery, sufferer No. 25, who had previously taken no vitamin C at all, took a 1,000-mg. dose. Next day he experienced "great relief...
Instructions coming direct to the Yard from the Directory of the U. S. Mint in Washington request that all students assist in the current campaign "to get back into circulation the idle coins that art lying hidden in piggy banks, sugar bowls, glass jars and bureau drawers" throughout the University...
...Boston, in one of the biggest upsets in a decade, a hell-bent-for-larceny Holy Cross eleven shoved its old and powerful rival, Boston College, out of the undefeated ranks (55-to-12), gloatingly robbing it of its bid to the Sugar Bowl. (Instead, Sugar Bowl promoters invited the Tulsa Hurricanes to meet the once-beaten University of Tennessee...
Same day the battle began, the U.S. people registered for sugar rationing. In The Bronx, a grand jury cleared Democratic National Chairman Ed Flynn of converting WPA labor and materials to his own use; New York's Governor Herbert Lehman announced he would not run again. The President had visits from politicos whose business...