Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chai nightclub. With Ruddy Tongg, one of the most successful of the new promoters. Hung has recently started Transpacific Air Lines (inter-island). Ruddy Tongg owns a printing and publishing business in Oahu and cattle ranches on Hawaii. Chin Ho, another Chinese, organized the company which purchased the Waianae sugar plantation on Oahu...
California's rugged, sequoia-covered mountain-sides are not, however, entirely characteristic of Western skiing. The treeless walls of the Sugar Bowl near Norden, Nevada, have stamped a far brighter mark on U.S. skiing annals than even the fabled San Gorgonio region, predicted by many ski experts to be among the most fruitful prospects for American sportsmen...
...Sugar Bowl has produced many Olympic skiers, the latest begin Dodie Post, a participant in this year's meet at Saint Mortiz, and is famed for its fast, steep runs...
Died. Lieut. Commander Allan Ramsey Wurtele (rhymes with "fur tell"). U.S.N. (ret.), 54, pioneer in mechanized cane-farming; of a heart ailment; in Mix, La. Wurtele invented a mechanical cane-harvester, and developed a process for converting sugar into synthetic rubber, attracted wider attention in 1939 when he proposed a plan to appease Hitler by buying him Danzig and the Polish Corridor for $70 million (Wurtele offered...
Most urgently needed foodstuffs include fats of all kinds, cooking oils, sugar, canned meats, and dried milk and eggs to supplement the "monotonous diet of 1500 calories per day" and to ward off constant cold, it went...