Word: acidizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manufacturers of soda water pumped so much water out of Saratoga Springs for the sake of the carbonic acid gas that when Dr. Simon Baruch got there the bathing establishments were in a sorry fix. Dr. Baruch found that to take a carbonated water bath he had to fill the tub from bottles of expensive Seltzer water which had been charged from deep-flowing Saratoga Springs water pumped to the surface by greedy bottlers. The State put a stop to that by buying practically all the mineral springs, letting them idle until the water table rose high enough to spurt...
...quarter of a century Sir Horace Edmund Avory has been "The Hanging Judge" to terrified British criminals who also called him "Acid Drop." Scrawny-necked, thin-lipped, slit-eyed and fearsome on his high bench in Old Bailey, Sir Horace sent to the gallows a yearly grist of sordid British murderers and that misguided Irish patriot Sir Roger Casement. The Acid Drop also corroded Clarence Hatry, greatest of British swindlers, whose gigantic frauds unsettled confidence in The City and hastened Depression (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929). Last week Super-Swindler Hatry sat in a cell from which he may emerge...
Famed for his "definitions," always good for a titter in Old Bailey, was the late, great Acid Drop. His definition of a lunatic: "A lunatic sometimes thinks he is the Lord Chancellor; sometimes he thinks he is a fried egg and cannot sit down except on a piece of toast...
...Union Bag was severely deflated by the introduction of the kraft process, which is supposed to have been discovered by a Swedish workman who unwittingly treated pulp with an alkali instead of the usual acid. The result was called kraft-Swedish for "strength." Upshot was that Union Bag's sulphite pulp plants had to be scrapped. For five successive years, right through the gayest days of the Coolidge Boom, the company reported deficits. Then, having adjusted itself to the kraft order, Union Bag climbed out of the red in 1931, only to slip back the next dark year...
...time he spends on the seventh floor of the Mirror Building, behind a door marked "International Research Laboratories, Inc." There, with his staff of technicians, he has produced a machine to make a half-tone engraving in four minutes instead of the customary hour. Instead of the usual acid bath, the Howey machine employs a photoelectric eye which scans the photograph. The impulses from the electric eye actuate a cutting tool which etches the lights & shades of the picture into a revolving half-cylinder of metal...