Word: vanilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vanillin, the flavor constituent of vanilla. Last year one-half of U.S. vanillin was synthesized from U.S. lignin, consumed by General Foods, Hershey, National Biscuit, countless numbers of ice-cream makers, the Army & Navy...
...background was tiny, shy, astonished Mrs. Willkie, of whom Indiana Congressman Charles Halleck, Willkie's nominator, remarked admiringly: "She's plain vanilla." Anxiously she watched her husband sweat through shirts every few hours, while his broad face grew haggard, the shadows under his eyes dark, his smile strained. At one conference he almost collapsed, was rushed off to bed. He slept an hour, came back for more...
...months ago even that effort was made easy. On the market appeared Clapp's Rennet Desserts in six flavors (vanilla, chocolate, lemon, orange, raspberry, maple). Price: 15? a package. Chief ingredients: sugar, calcium, salt, skim milk and rennet (an enzyme from a calf's fourth stomach). Children took to the new desserts, did not mistake them for spinach. Last week, because of its booming sales, Clapp broke ground for a new $250,000 addition to its model Rochester plant-a 50% increase in floor space...