Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the traditional Poughkeepsie Regatta unscheduled this year, the Lake Washington row looms as the spring's top competition. Although it was not till late in the season that this regatta was planned, a large turnout, both of spectators and contestants, is expected...
...till then Unilever's U.S. subsidiary had been largely the creation of President Francis A. Countway, an elegant patrician who sometimes seemed more like a Renaissance prince than what many people called him: "the greatest advertising man in the U.S." Lifebuoy soap was introduced from England in 1898, but it was Countway who, after a golf game one hot afternoon, invented B.O. to go with it. He had presided over the debuts of Lux Toilet Soap, Rinso, Swan and Spry. He had earned his huge salary (in 1939, $469,000, highest in the U.S. outside Hollywood) by boosting Lever...
From Washington came one ray of hope. The Wage Stabilization Board gave copper producers approval to use a wage increase (not to exceed 18½? an hour) as a basis for a boost in prices. Up till then the strike-bound mining companies (Kennecott, Phelps Dodge) had refused to meet demands for an 18½? boost. The present 12?-a-lb. copper ceiling price, they maintained, was too low to meet these demands. To take care of this, OPA is expected to announce a boost in the copper ceiling price to 14.32? this week-enough, it hopes, to absorb...
...Operation Musk-Ox," the Canadian Army's strategic tour around the roof of the world, last week came to an inglorious end. It was licked by something few had foreseen-dust. Up till then, the 45 men in the expedition had endured unbelievably tough conditions in their 3,000-mile trek. Frequently the mercury dropped way out of sight (coldest day: 52° below zero). The ten snowmobiles floundered through miles of man-swallowing swamps; crossed ice-choked rivers in spring flood, like the Fort Nelson, on rafts; gingerly pushed their way across great chasms on improvised timber bridges...
...German chemists, Charles Pfizer and his brother-in-law Charles Erhart, in 1849, the company soon got a reputation for producing high quality chemicals. But it was still small in 1923, when it began producing citric acid by a new process, the vegetative fermentation of sugar. Up till then citric acid, the most widely used organic acid in the food and beverage field, was produced chiefly in Europe from lemon and lime juice. With its new process, Pfizer broke the foreign monopoly...