Word: absorbents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later he is not only still alive but master of South African diamond mines. With the help of Dr. Jameson, now his best friend, he pushes on to fulfill his lifelong ideal-to unite South Africa, then the whole world, under the British Empire. His first step is to absorb Matabeleland, lush jungle nation ruled by King Lobengula. As Premier, he next tries to get Transvaal, ruled by the Boers, sole white rivals to English supremacy. Foiled by the stolid smugness of Boer President Oom Paul Kruger (Oscar Homolka), Rhodes allows himself to be persuaded into using force. The resulting...
...would be invisible. But glass is not perfectly transparent. Some of the light rays which strike it are reflected back to the eye of the observer. Invisible glass is curved in such a way that the reflected light is sent upwards and downwards into black velvet pads which completely absorb it. Since no light gets back to the observer, the glass cannot be seen. The invisible glass system now in use was developed in England by E. Pollard & Co. Its U. S. patents are held by Invisible Glass Co. of America, of which Libbey-Owens-Ford and Pittsburgh Plate...
Since the case against the holding company was so strong, wrote Messrs. Schwab & Grace, Bethlehem was about to transform itself into an operating company, absorb four subsidiaries, "as the initial steps in a consolidation program." Still outside the fold are some 60 other Bethlehem subsidiaries including the most important ones...
Wheat & Corn reacted a few cents last week but grain surpluses are small. Flour was cut as much as $1.38 per bbl. Some bakers cut the price of bread 1? per loaf. In addition to having fewer taxes to absorb, biscuit bakers and packaged food concerns will probably gain from bigger volume at lower prices. Last year their attempts to pass the tax on to the consumers made many customers so mad that they organized "buyers' strikes." Starting as a protest against the high price of meat, these strikes were ultimately directed against nearly all high-priced groceries. Last...
...students rioted more & more savagely as Anthony Eden read on & on. Urgent cables from the British High Commissioner in Cairo caused "Tony" annoyance. Here he was a new Foreign Secretary, with his career to make, and the Egyptians would not wait for his orderly Eton mind to absorb the facts as they should be absorbed, slowly. In his annoyance the new Foreign Secretary wrote a reply referring the Egyptians to the speech on Egypt of his predecessor as Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, which so inflamed Egyptian passions that turbulence in Cairo has been rising ever since. The speech contained...