Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lend to countries which it has forgiven their debts, could not be regarded as undeserving of confidence whatever happens. Even in the unlikely event of British national credit being impaired by cancellation, it is improbable that private credit would be affected. Mr. Barrett must have, imbibed some of the "acid" of his "considerations." The Ottawa conference is not an attempt to affect American trade. If such trade is affected it will be incidental to, and not the aim of, a conference whose objective is a revival of British trade. The conference resulted more from American efforts at supporting national industries...
...gilt (or guilt) of this latest cancellationist gold brick bubbles green beneath the acid of these considerations...
Fortnight ago the reed broke. Wang Ching-wei, Cantonese leader who joined his old enemy Chiang Kai-shek to oppose Japan at Shanghai, resigned as Premier of the Nanking government, dragging the entire cabinet with him and sending an acid note to Chiang Kai-shek complaining bitterly at the piffling resistance to Japan put up by Chang Hsueh-liang, the Young Marshal. Sick, discouraged, disgraced, the Young Marshal offered his resignation too (TIME, Aug. 15). All the pleading of Chiang Kai-shek could not make him withdraw it last week...
Flexible Resin. Since Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented Bakelite from carbolic acid & formaldehyde and demonstrated how useful and profitable such artificial resins may be, a new division of plastics has developed in chemistry. New product is "glyptal," a flexible material which /. G. E. Wright declared is better than rubber or leather for printing machine rollers. It can be used for lithographic rolls and blankets, oil-proof gaskets, floor coverings, special sheetings for the balloonets of dirigibles, gasoline and oil hose, motor-mountings, tooth brushes...
...their claims and because Standard Oil of California was reported anxious to bid for the company it was thought that the offer would not be accepted at once. Fertilizer Merger. A merger was arranged last week between Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp., a leading producer of fertilizer and sulphuric acid, and Armour Fertilizer Works, wholly-owned subsidiary of Armour & Co. of Delaware. The merged business will be known as Virginia-Carolina Fertilizer Corp., will be 61% owned by Armour. Virginia-Carolina has never made satisfactory profits. It sells mainly to farmers in the cotton and tobacco belts. Its president, Charles...