Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After subjecting patient listeners to a winter-long barrage of sickly sweet patriotic songs, the radio networks have hit upon the happy idea of pressing announcers and band leaders into service, and a new silly season seems imminent. Their whimsy seems to be that a cute patriotic epigram or a snappy call to arms by your favorite band leader will jack up, sagging morale. This must prove most interesting reading when Axis propagandists describe it to the people back home...
...reason used-car prices are up is that only 145,000 new cars will be rationed through May v. 1,450,000 sold in the same months last year. A bigger reason is that dealers smell sweet profits. With trade-ins down, along with new-car sales, they are satisfied not to sell unless they get their pound of coin. Consequently used-car sales volume has flopped. In Atlanta a big Chrysler-Plymouth dealer sold only 20 used cars in February, 70% below normal; the First National Bank reported used-car financing off 80%. In Texas, February sales were down...
...gets away with the feat in the best Howard manner: a polished, guileless, casual, sweet performance-restrained, incredible, a screen Englishman...
...Saccharine, widely used as a substitute in the last war, is no substitute for sugar. It merely tastes sweet, may be harmful in quantity...
...world got along nicely through most of its history with no sugar at all. There was no sugar in Europe until the Arabs brought their "sweet salt" to Spain in 700 A.D. For centuries afterwards, sugar was regarded as a precious spice, a medicine, a rich man's luxury. Only recently has it been considered a food...