Word: users
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking for other foods to fill his salesmen's trucks, Schnering was soon selling marshmallows, cookies, popcorn, soup mixes and some 80 other items. Now Curtiss sells $1.1 million in candy a week. The fact that Schnering was a big user of milk and other farm products helped start him looking around for a farm of his own. He wanted to show his suppliers how to produce high quality foodstuffs...
While U.S. production dropped, the U.S. displaced Great Britain as the world's biggest wool user. Consumption went up from 600 million Ibs. a year to about 1 billion Ibs. Most of this was in the finer wools. Russia, never a big buyer before the war, had also entered the market in a big way and did not seem to give a hang about the price...
...Orajet is a 22-inch tube of trans parent plastic with a detachable nozzle on one end and an expansion bolt on the other. The whole thing weighs only two ounces. The user squirts toothpaste (about the same amount usually put on a toothbrush) into the nozzle, puts the other end into a wash basin faucet (it won't work on a Pullman car, not enough pressure). When the water is turned on, a jet of mixed water and toothpaste cleans the teeth. One shot of toothpaste is enough to last all around the mouth...
Most startling was Dart's evidence, from a number of charred bones, that the little man had learned to use fire. He lived in the early Ice Age, from 300,000 to 500,000 years before Peking Man, hitherto the earliest known user of fire. In honor of both his fire-bringing record and his prophetic skills, the new little man was named Australopithecus prometheus...
Even if he were willing to pay a higher price, the average user could not help but conclude that the chances of getting more steel were more than ever against him. Steel production last week reached 98.5% of capacity, a new peacetime high. But the industry's voluntary allocations program, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer reported, was "grinding to a halt." The reason, said Sawyer, was that Congress failed to extend the allocations law beyond its March 1 deadline, leaving hardly enough time for all the steps involved in making new allocations ("careful study" of every application, followed...