Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ersatz Candy. The candymakers (fourth largest U.S. food industry) met in convention last week to moan and groan. Reasons: lost imports from 29 countries; the rationing of sugar and cocoa (which formerly constituted half of $400,000,000 worth of candy sold each year). But the confectioners pushed their product as an important Army food item; and bravely produced new wartime candies, featuring: powdered milk, dried fruit, domestic nuts, shredded and toasted soybeans, corn syrup, sweet potatoes, cereal, cracker meal, cornstarch, gelatin, peanut butter, and three-day-old bread...
...Neath a ton of sugar, by a rubber tree...
...minimum, allows soldiers to be moved with no ill effects. Only drawback: after a week or so the wounds develop a foul stench. Last week Dr. Allan Dinsmore Wallis and Researcher Margaret J. Dilworth of Philadelphia told how they prevented the smell by simply placing lactose (milk sugar) solution on wounds before enclosing them in plaster. Apparently, said the scientists, the lactose provides food for harmless bacteria in the wounds, prevents them from causing putrefaction...
...Sugar was in a nut house all last week. Even Government bureaus bickered with one another...
...jolted Washington with its bland statement that consumer sugar stocks were "only slightly below normal" and that there was no need for rationing. Up jumped the Agriculture Department: "Sugar for use in the continental U.S. is expected to be the smallest in 20 years." Then, with a so-there flip of its head, the Department added: "Rationing is necessary." OPA-which doled out the 130,000,000 sugar-ration cards-quickly and emphatically agreed...