Word: vatfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporting news of a local boy in Italy, the Rothsay, Minn. Enterprise printed his picture, with this caption: "Shown here is Sergeant Vernon G. Ostlund, 26, stirring up a vat of soup for his coworkers." But the picture showed Sergeant Ostlund only from the knees up, with a few inches of what might or might not have been the handle of a soup ladle in his hand. At the end of the story was appended the following explanation...
Growth of a City. Harry Chandler, who died at 80 in Los Angeles last week, was a New Hampshire boy who went to California for his health after diving into an ice-covered vat near Dartmouth on a dare. In Los Angeles, Chandler's racking cough so annoyed his landlady that she asked him to move. He wandered into the hills, got a job with a squatter breaking colts and picking fruit. As part payment he got permission to sell some of the fruit to nearby Mexican laborers. In a year he had saved $3,000. He went...
...most adventurous U.S. painting contractor bagged a new job last week. Vat-shaped (200 lb., 5 ft. 3 in.) Nathan Schriber flew from Denver to Kansas City to boss a $310,000 job. The job: to seal every crack in a big new Sunflower Ordnance Plant building, to brush the walls with a fire-and water-resisting paint. The job was important; the building will house the manufacture of a highly explosive and highly secret new gunpowder, and the structure must be tight against fires and floodings (from the sprinkler system...
...occasion of its departure a send-off is given in the pub by a bag-piper which is pleasant if you hae Scotch blood in you. Another tantalizing feature of the play was the Scotch displayed on the shelves of the pub. Plenty of Haig & Haig, Johnny Walker, and Vat 69 was prominently visible...
...vegetable-meat) has not been named; it will not be offered under the unappetizing title of "yeast." The Army and Lend-Lease are already buying millions of pounds. Postwar possibilities are obviously enormous, and the product's wildest enthusiasts stop at nothing: observing that a 10-ft. vat can produce as much meat in a year as 1,000 acres of pasture, they fancy that the world's cattle may be heading for the last roundup...