Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Gene Buck and Neville Miller, mouthpieces for ASCAP and radio respectively, have voiced touching sentiments regarding their affection for the listening public and for what that public wants. Yet right now you and I have to sit around and listen to sugar-tongued announcers' plugging tunes obviously whipped up in an awful hurry for one purpose: to beat a deadline. Band leaders, whose themes songs are their musical John Hancock, are forced to change those themes for tunes which scarcely identify them or their music. Of course, we hear an occasional bell-ringer like There I Go, but that...
...year's end, the false boom was over and prices slipped again. Although food staples from sugar to navy beans had boomed in September, the average wage-earner's food costs rose only 5% over August's level. By December, most of this was wiped out and living costs were lower than in December...
Wodehouse's American friends for a long time heard nothing about him at all. This week they learned that he is interned in a former insane asylum at Tost, a small village in the monotonous sugar-beet flatlands of Upper Silesia. Wodehouse has been there since the prison camp was created last September. No Castle Blandings, his prison is a big, brick, T-shaped, three-storied structure with many barred windows, high brick & wooden walls. A small military garrison runs and guards the camp. Central heating is said to be good, sanitation adequate. There are hospital facilities...
...average worker in Germany works ten hours a day for six days a week. He makes 130 marks a month ($52), spends half of it for taxes, rent, lottery chances and the automobile he has been promised some day. He drinks beer, sometimes made out of barley or sugar beets. He worships Hitler. But last week from some where in Germany was broadcast a mes sage to the Italian people: "You have the revolutionary arms in your hands...
...Before World War II Western sugar-beet farmers were content to import European seeds for each year's crop. It was cheaper than paying U. S. labor to gather their own. Foreseeing a shortage, Oregon beet farmers planted 1,000 acres of seed for 1940 harvest, nearly doubled the acreage for 1941. It has been a profitable operation. Selling at 7½? a lb., beet seed nets Oregonians a neat $125 an acre...