Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clinic, Andrew Conway Ivy of Northwestern, George Washington Crile of Cleveland. While his guests lit their cigars and settled back in their chairs, the doors to the dining hall opened wide and in trooped 50 of Dr. Lahey's friends, bearing a mammoth birthday cake, lavishly decorated with sugar paintings of Dr. & Mrs. Lahey playing golf, Dr. Lahey performing an operation, Dr. Lahey's pedigreed pointers and setters (he is an ardent hunter), an assortment of trains and airships to symbolize his wide travels...
...White House . . . consider the sugar legislation. ... I told him I was going to submit a resolution nominating to a third term. . . . You can boo, but he'll be your next President. . . . The President has asked me to deliver to you his sincere wishes for a successful convention [Interruption: Then why don't you sit down? . . . The President . . . ex pressed a sincere desire . . . visit Louisiana . " participate in the fishing and duck hunting. . . ." The shaken Senator could not go on, left the platform...
...materiel and men, France lost great wealth and war resources in the north. Calais is a main source of cement. From Calais through Lille to Valenciennes runs France's richest coal belt. Lille makes textiles and chemicals. Mezieres and Valenciennes are important steel towns. France's beet-sugar industry was in the north, and the entire area, with 85 inhabitants per square kilometer (2/5 sq. mi.) was a rich farm area for corn, barley, cattle, horses. The Germans would go methodically about rehabilitating all these resources, "to make the war pay for itself...
...blood vessel over a slender rod from opposite directions and sewing them where they met. The rod, like a darning egg inside a torn stocking, makes sewing easy. Of course the rod cannot be left inside, nor can it be removed. So Sidney Smith makes his rods of sugar in sizes to fit all types of blood vessels. Coated with a thin film of bland oil, the rod stiffens the vein or artery while a surgeon mends the break with overcast stitches. Clamps cut off the supply of blood during the stitching. Then the clamps are removed...
...pack with aluminum utensils and condensed food rations. Napoleon's legionnaires, weighed down by bread and flour, carried packs that weighed 58 lb. The modern U. S. foot-slogger's pack weighs 31 lb. His emergency ration consists of nucleo-casein, malted milk, egg albumen, powdered cane sugar, cocoa butter-proteins, amino-bodies, fat and carbohydrates...