Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the medicine was mixed by the Military Affairs Committee, it had some sugar coating. The committee extended the age limits for liability to military service, 21-to-31 in the Senate bill, to 21-to-45. Result: to get 800,000 men in the next year, the Army would have to call only one registrant out of 23. But the floor managers could see this was not enough. The Senate had seized at a straw -the Overton-Russell amendment giving the President a club over recalcitrant defense industries-which would permit Senators to argue on the stump that they...
Sued for divorce. Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., 28, four-times-married sportsman and sugar tycoon; by Emily Hall von Romberg Spreckels, 28, comely onetime baroness; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Charging brutality and shame brought on by his Nazi associations, Spreckels' wife complained that he had once flaunted a swastika in a Manhattan cafe...
Most crippled children never go to school, get their lessons from visiting teachers at home or hospital. The man who made Denver's school possible was famed, 88-year-old Capitalist Charles Boettcher (beet sugar, cement), whose grandson, Charles II, was kidnapped seven years ago, ransomed for $60,000. The Boettcher family put up $193,000, enabled Denver's Board of Education to get a PWA grant and build a $384,000 school. Designed in pale green concrete and glass by famed Architect Burnham Hoyt, it was easily the handsomest and best-equipped school for crippled children...
Here is our position: the 2 oz. per person tea ration is small for some people, and there is talk of its being increased, but we have tea left over; we have sugar to spare, in addition to the extra allowed for jam making; gelatine, cocoa, dried fruit-you can buy as much as you like; and milk-people with children won't buy as much as the Food Ministry want them to have, even at the under-cost price for children...
...Britain, loading cargoes for export. With no passenger trade and with all Scandinavian and Continent traffic suspended, the port was far less bustling than normally, but workers employed (including crews) ran as high as 35,000 per day in August; warehouses were piled with grain, tobacco, flour, tea, rubber, sugar, meat, wool, timber, leather. At Tilbury Docks, which the Germans claimed to have destroyed Aug. 16, patches showed where bombs had struck but about 30 ships lay at berths handling cargo or making ready for sea. Officials admitted that as much traffic as possible had been diverted to safer ports...