Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There has just arrived at my house a parcel from California containing: 2 Ib. tea, ½ Ib. gelatine, 8 Ib. sugar, 2 Ib. cocoa, i Ib. powdered milk, 3 Ib. dried fruit...
...feud with Governor General Leonard Wood was said to have hastened Wood's death; it laid fiery Quezon low with tuberculosis. Recovered, he got his political machete out again. By this time his campaign for Philippine independence had won support in parts of the U. S. A powerful sugar lobby and many a U. S. producer wanted competitive Philippine products put on the foreign list, subjected to tariff. The Philippines had become an expensive experiment in imperialism. Public desire to be rid of the Islands was finally reflected in the Tydings-McDuffie Act, creating a unicameral Assembly with broad...
Methods for using home materials, such as pipe, tin cans, bolts and gravel, in manufacturing bombs were demonstrated and instruction was given in sabotage nuisance tactics, such as putting sand and cinders in locomotive grease chambers to create hotboxes, vinegar or sugar in gasoline tanks to stall cars. One particular trick stressed in the school was stretching a thin wire across highways at a height of 4 ft. 3 in. to decapitate enemy motorcyclists. Lest a rider detect the wire, volunteers were told to place a dummy at the side of the road to distract his attention at the crucial...
...sleeping sickness), infantile paralysis. The animals' viruses bring foot-and-mouth disease, distemper, swine fever, parrot fever, pox diseases of birds. Fish and insects are also attacked by viruses, and no fewer than 135 plant-virus diseases have been described. Most prevalent: tobacco mosaic disease, potato leaf roll, sugar beet curly top. Viruses flourish only in living tissues, cannot be cultured in test tubes...
...than one price spurt by methods not always polite. Last fall the posted steel price threatened to rise; the Temporary National Economic Committee called steelmen to Washington, argued for low prices, hinted at an anti-steel publicity campaign; the steel price stayed put. When housewives started to hoard retail sugar (TIME, Sept. 23), the President untied import quotas; in came Cuban sugar, down went prices. Copper began to move upwards; the President said the price was being watched, and the move slackened. Few weeks ago domestic mercury sold as high as $200 a flask. So the Administration stopped issuing export...