Word: pease
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week this lovable little baby elephant with blue eyes and a winning manner seemed to be all over the place. His name was in lights on the marquees of some 200 cinemansions. He was getting a big play in a majority of the nation's big-city department...
Forty-four million cases of canned tomatoes; 42 million cases of canned peas; 14 million cases of canned snap beans; 25 million cases of canned corn. Probabilities were that figures would be revised upwards when new Russian Ambassador Litvinoff arrives in Washington with a full report of Russian requirements.
Shot partly on the 501st's home grounds at Fort Benning, Ga., Parachute Battalion follows the rigorous training of a modern parachutist with documentary nicety. And its shiploads of husky, fully equipped youngsters cascading out of their transports like peas from a pod make first-rate drama.
> Lunch and dinner: potatoes prepared in many ways, Kommissbrot (bread made from coarse whole rye, rich in vitamin B), all sorts of cheeses, milk, sour milk or milk powder (it stays fresh for eight months), rice, beans, peas, oats and barley, dried vegetables, dried and preserved fruits. "Fresh vegetables are...
> By feeding plants with radioactive elements, California botanists have found to their surprise that plants can assimilate food downward as well as upward. More surprising was their discovery that "if barley plants are exposed to radio-nitrogen, a small quantity of labeled nitrogen compounds are formed in the tissues of...