Word: swift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years researchers of Chicago's Swift & Co. hunted for a chemical which would delay the spoiling of lard by oxidation and would protect lard's linoleic constituent, rich in vitamin F. They finally found what they wanted in gum guaiac, made from the sap of the tropical American guaiacum tree. Swift's President John Holmes said that lard treated with tiny amounts of gum guaiac was odorless, bland in flavor...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt today criticized as reprehensible the conduct of persons in Michigan who throw eggs at Wendell L. Willkie and urged the state to mete out swift punishment...
With that the conference moved to a swift Axis finish. In the Gold Room of "the Belvedere the two Hungarians and the two Rumanians met with Ciano, Ribbentrop and Baron Alexander von Dornberg, German Chief of Protocol...
David R. Matlack, Edward J. Michon, Ernest A. Mitchell, Frank D. Padgett, William C. Palson, Jr., Frank W. Reeb, Edward W. Shaw, William F. Snyder, Robert M. Solow, Joseph S. Spenser, Thomas M. Stanton, Richard N. Swift, Jack L. Torgan, Charles R. Weaver, Stephen J. Welsh, Rush E. Welter, and John R. Yoder...
Says he: "There are three areas, in particular, where a swift renewal of faith and act and deed must take place: these are the areas that have always been lifesustaining, life-preserving, life-forwarding. One is the family. The other is the land. And the third is the self. . . . Without a revamping of our ideas and practices in these areas . . . our efforts to preserve a civilized social order will be feeble and hollow. . . ." How this revamping is to be accomplished, practically under fire, is left somewhat vague, all the more so because Author Mumford. by habit, intention and idiom, addresses...