Word: syrups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brand-new soft-drink plant at Compton, Calif., a stocky, 68-year-old engineer slopped around in spilled root-beer syrup, adjusting, testing and breaking in $450,000 worth of canning machinery. Allan Baldwin Rogers was at his favorite job: getting a new Can-a-Pop plant into production...
...lament the disappearance of the chalk-line test. At a recent civic meeting, a New Orleans official gave a demonstration in the hope of inspiring interest and confidence in the Drunk-O-Meter, a type that measures the alcoholic content of the breath. Placing some 70 proof cough syrup at a handy distance, he prepared to give a before-and-after exhibition. Unfortunately, either he or the machine was smashed and the meeting ended in a general state of disorder...
...distinguished members of the New England Botanical Club, Kinsey and Fernald spent days preparing a wild dinner: cold pigweed salad, pickles from cucumber root, bread from the acorns of swamp white oaks, squawberries, a cake of ground hickory nuts filled with blueberries and topped with maple syrup. It was, he reports, a great success...
...calorie foods sweetened with saccharin and pectin instead of sugar. The products-ten fruits, four salad dressings, three jellies, four puddings, four gelatins, a chocolate topping-did so well (1953 sales are estimated at $8,000,000) that Flotill will soon add a low-calorie liquid sweetener, ketchup, maple syrup and soup...
Fantasy without coyness is rare, and fantasy about childhood without overdoses of syrup is even rarer. The 5,000 Fingers, even at its most fantastic, contrives to keep its brisk sense of humor and its matter-of-fact, child's-eye view. The villains employed by Dr. T. are a carefree mixture of pirates, heavies out of The Arabian Nights, dabblers in atomic science, and cheerleaders for a rival junior high football team (one of the best of the picture's ten songs is a close-harmony, walls-of-poison-ivy number, softly sung by a group...