Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stockpiles; 2) reclaimed rubber; 3) synthetic rubber; 4) foreign sources within the U. S. Fleet's protection. Since big time production of synthetic rubber would be at least two years away, handiest source of new rubber in the Western Hemisphere is the guayule bush in Mexico, Hevea tree in Brazil...
...Chicago's Swift & Co. hunted for a chemical which would delay the spoiling of lard by oxidation and would protect lard's linoleic constituent, rich in vitamin F. They finally found what they wanted in gum guaiac, made from the sap of the tropical American guaiacum tree. Swift's President John Holmes said that lard treated with tiny amounts of gum guaiac was odorless, bland in flavor...
...brassy dignity, an odd-looking contraption stood on the stage of Chicago's Orchestra Hall one night last week. It was a Schellenbaum (bell tree), an instrument of Moorish origin, looking like a brass Christmas tree hung with bells and horse tails. It is the only Schellenbaum owned by a U. S. orchestra. The Chicago Symphony, which got it as a gift from the late Composer Camille Saint-Saëns, trots it out rarely. But last week, when the Symphony began its soth season, its 36th under the still competent baton of stooped, white-haired old "Papa" Frederick...
...Republican Convention opened with the most popular of the new songs currently reflecting American surge of patriotism, W.P.A.-written: 1. Ballad for Americans. 2. God Bless America. 3. I Am an American. 4. Our Side of the Ocean. 5. And They Lynched Him on a Tree...
...TREE OF LIBERTY, a best selling novel, is the basis of Hollywood's latest film on the American Revolution: 1. Adam Bede. 2. The Howards of Virginia. 3. Independence Hall. 4. Patrick Henry. 5. The Boston Tea Party...