Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reader response was immediate and varied-and free. An Arkansas lawyer recommended that doctors use the juice of green walnut hulls, which had cured his grandson. A Brooklyn insecticide company asked permission to fog the whole town with a special germicide. One company wanted to send 500 cases of ringworm medicine. Dozens of firms offered cures. Some sent doctors to study the epidemic and supervise treatment...
...lushly Technicolored version of the Rudyard Kipling adventure novel, will tempt small boys to trade in their Hopalong Cassidy duds for a turban, a walnut-stained complexion and a British Secret Service mission in the Empire's wild East of 1885. Like Treasure Island's Jim Hawkins, Kipling's spunky little hero reigns in a world of outsmarted adults. More than that, Kim (ably played by Dean Stockwell) comes equipped with swashbuckling dash, a guttersnipe's invective and a taste for fine cigars...
...PEAKE Walnut Creek, Calif...
...aircraft plant set peacefully among the rolling cornfields just west of the Missouri River. He leaves his door wide open and is usually "at home" to any brasshat or buck private-somewhat as a lion is at home on meatless Tuesday. He sits immobile behind his polished walnut desk, black-maned, broad-shouldered and heavy-faced, his lips set as straight as the five rows of service ribbons on his tan uniform jacket...
...Good afternoon," barked Harry S. Truman as he marched briskly into the stuffy Treaty Room of the old State Department at 4:04 p.m. and stood warily behind the big walnut desk. The 132 reporters readied their pencils, and the match began...