Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would wear wooden get a (clogs). The country had lost 11 million of its 14 million prewar cotton spindles but could still supply domestic textile needs if it had 5 million piculs (1,300,000 U.S. bales) of cotton. The total on hand: 100,000 piculs. Because of the sugar shortage, chemical companies turned to saccharine production, hoped to produce two grams per capita yearly...
...said, once she got her mother settled in a home of her own; so he bought a house for mama and a trousseau for Kay. Then, the day after they made a date to set the date, he read in a newspaper that she had just married Sugar Heir Adolph B. Spreckels Jr. (TIME,. Sept. 17). Macoco explained his suit: "It's the principle. ... I do not like being made a sucker...
...South, Alabama's blond thread-needle passer, 180-lb. Harry Gilmer, star of last year's Sugar Bowl game, put 'Bama on a pre-season par with powerhoused Georgia Tech and Duke-which last week flattened South Carolina...
Married. Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr.,* 33, California playboy and sugar heir; and Kay Williams, 26, blonde Hollywood starlet; he for the fifth time, she for the second; in Wickenburg, Ariz...
...Sugar. Probably the last to go ration-free, perhaps not before...