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...committee asked no ruralite what his favorite programs were, but each household was asked whether it kept on hand any packaged cereals, coffee, cleanser; canned soup, milk, tomato or fruit juice; wrapped bread, kitchen or toilet soap; toothpaste or powder, face powder, lipstick or rouge. These are prime radio-advertised products. When the report was published the answers to this question were not included. The explanation: "It was believed . . . that pride would tend to inflate the figures of usage, particularly of products like lipstick and rouge, face powder...
...Tomato (stolen...
Vitamin E. In 1922, Physiologist Herbert McLean Evans of the University of California discovered that lack of a certain principle of wheat germ, tomato and lettuce oils made laboratory rats sterile. In 1935 he isolated Vitamin E, the active principle of these oils, reduced it to its pure, crystalline form. Vitamin E regulates cell division, increases the number and strength of the offspring, promotes growth. Lack of this vitamin results in malnutrition of the embryo and abortion in the female, destruction of germ cells in the male, muscular paralysis in the young. Isolation of Vitamin E (alpha tocopherol) from natural...
Guiding them was Franklin Pierce McCall, 21, a hollow-eyed "cracker," part-time road worker, truck driver and tomato packer, son of a Nazarene preacher. He and his wife used to lodge with Skeegie Cash's parents. He knew the child well, and knew how much money James Bailey Cash, the father, had in the bank-just about $10,000, the sum asked for in ransom. McCall had professed great sympathy for the bereaved parents, had joined the first searching parties. But Mr. Cash's brother and sister-in-law grew suspicious of him when: 1) he "found...
When Romance in the Dark was in the making, considerable fuss was made over a sequence in which Singer Swarthout was pelted with tomatoes by an opera audience. Previewers greeted the scene with no enthusiasm, and it was cut out. Now the only tomato thrown squishes over the Latin features of Tenor Fortunio Bona-Nava...