Word: lac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Over Lac Leman the sun set in splendor. Mont Blanc's icy peak changed from red to grey to blue, finally faded into the falling night. The moon rose. From an old-fashioned paddle steamer, 400 UNRRA employes (who had taken time out from their Geneva conference for a boat ride) watched the grandiose spectacle in awed fascination...
...year-old Bill Evjue (pronounced Ev-you) was mad again. What irked him this time was the death of the Progressive Party (TIME, March 25). A faithful disciple of old "Fighting Bob" La Follette, he had been convention chairman at the party's birth at Fond du Lac in 1934. For most of its life, he was the movement's editorial mouthpiece. Confronted with the party's corpse, he refused to call it suicide. It was murder, he cried. He demanded an autopsy, accused the La Follette brothers of killing the party "by kidnapping it into...
...encouragement, an elderly reader in Fond du Lac County last week told him she was putting him on her prayer list, and the Congregational minister read the editorial to his Sunday-school class. Two ladies from the W.C.T.U. welcomed him over to their side...
Willkie began poorly in Richland Center, deep in dairyland. Farmers gave up their Saturday night shopping to jam 2,400 strong into a red-brick high school. They sat apathetic through a long farm speech, delivered without fire. Then Willkie pushed on, to Neenah, Oshkosh, Fond du Lac. His party, including 25 correspondents, rolled along snow-covered countryside in seven shiny rented 1942 Dodges. Veteran Scripps-Howard Newsman Tom Stokes was reminded of a "glamorous Broadway star going back to the five-a-day ... or a major-league pitcher back to the minors. ... All the trappings of the big time...
...uses, Zinlac is used by the Army, Navy and Merchant Marine as coating for a great variety of equipment, from guns to life rafts. Its manufacturer, the old Manhattan shellac firm of William Zinsser & Co., is turning out more Zinlac than its total prewar sales of shellac. Zin lac, however, will not help in making phonograph records, normally one of the chief U.S. users of shellac. On records, this corn product does not work...