Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University since 1931, they have patiently traced the body's step-by-step transformation of carbohydrates and sugars into substances in blood and tissue. Their Nobel Prize was for discovering and synthesizing a complicated enzyme (an enzyme is a biological catalyst) that begins the process of converting glycogen (animal starch) into sugar in the body...
...bountiful crop" did not come up to last year's-the potato harvest was down by 10%, sugar beets were down 14%, and wheat, most important of all, was off 16%. Yet the Winnipeg Tribune could say: "Even momentary comparison of our lot [with Europe's] makes us seem as rich as Croesus: it is a time both to give thanks and to share...
...Sugar Heir John D. Spreckels Ill's wife, Lou Dell, was through with love. One month after the Spreckelses were jugged for whaling away at each other in the street (TIME, Sept. 1), Spreckels was picked up again, this time for going at Lou Dell hammer-&-tongs with a fireplace set. As soon as she got out of the hospital, disillusioned Lou Dell filed a suit for separation...
Along 25 miles of the old Spanish trail between Biloxi and Bay St. Louis, Miss., hardly a building was left standing. Sea walls buckled. Gulf coast beaches and roads were littered with poisonous water moccasins, blown and washed in from marshy offshore islands. Thousands of acres of sugar cane were flattened. Tidal waters flooded Louisiana's bayou country. New Orleans got a day-long battering which left it a-clutter with twisted autos, broken power lines, shattered windows...
...Among items decontrolled: flour, bread, peas, beans, canned goods, textiles, leather, clothing, lumber, farm implements, nails, wire, gopher poison. Among the few still controlled: meat, rents, sugar, soap...