Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Near East, 50% to Singapore and The Netherlands Indies, 25% to South America). Commodities markets boiled with evidence that traders knew there was many a shoal ahead for ocean-going freight. Rubber rose to 22.75? a Ib. (a new high for the season), raw sugar to 3.30? a Ib. (highest in 17 months), cocoa to 7.43? a Ib. (highest since...
...Maritime Commission received from the Office of Production Management a list of "essential" and "nonessential" imports which soon will be translated into cargo priorities. Classed as essential were the strategic and critical materials (rubber, tin, etc.), plus such secondary or civilian musts as leather, wool, zinc, copper, quinine, coffee, sugar, cocoa. On the nonessential list were frillier items which the U. S. imported to the amount of $200,000,000 last year: spices, wine, tea, furs, coconut oil, palm oil, fibres and burlap. By rationing shipping space just as machine tools and aluminum already are being rationed (TIME, March...
Since diabetics are unable to burn up the sugar they consume, it looked as though the islands in a normal pancreas secreted some substance which acted like a spark plug. What was the spark plug? That same night, Banting read in a medical journal that if you tie off a pancreas duct, the digestive juice cells shrivel up, die. That gave him the great idea-how to get the digestive juices out of the way, to get at the spark-plug chemical. He wrote three sentences in a notebook: "Tie off pancreatic duct of dogs. Wait six to eight weeks...
Banting went to Macleod, asked for ten dogs and an assistant for eight weeks. He got them. He and Charles Herbert Best, still a medical student but an expert on blood sugar measurement, went feverishly to work in a hot, shabby little laboratory heavy with the smell of anesthetic. Many more dogs than ten were necessary; in fact, one of the key dogs of the search was No. 92. But one day a miracle happened. A dog which the experimenters had turned into a diabetic by removing its pancreas lay dying, unable to get to its feet. They shot some...
Still ahead lay other potential shortages -steel, copper, brass, power, freight-car manufacturing, foundries, shipping. As an omen of the shipping uncertainty, the price of imports-cocoa, rubber, silk-rose last week. Other commodities (flour, cotton goods, sugar) did the same. Meanwhile wages also nudged the trend. The woolen-textile industry upped wages 10%, and steelworkers met a U. S. Steel offer of 2½?-an-hour increase by a demand for 10?. By this week it was clear that, even if major strikes are averted, the U. S. economy was turning into a shortage economy. Higher inventories, higher prices...