Word: ammonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jerry the Greek, alias Jerry the Rubber, Jerry Luvadis, is a less shady character. Incapable of reading or writing, he is a trainer of Jack Dempsey, is famed for a perfume stronger than ammonia which he uses in large quantities...
...Canada Dry ("Champagne of Ginger Ales"): $1,449,191 as against $1,273,528. Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Charles M. Schwab, Eugene G. Grace): $7,914,046 as against $10,666,718. E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. (smokeless powder, explosives, rayon, dyestuffs, paint, varnish, alcohol, pyralin, cinema film, ammonia, nitric acid and 23% of General Motors common stock) : $30,125,125 as against $21,436,642. Telautograph Corp. (point to point handwriting device): $144,103 as against $124,302. John R. Thompson Co. (120 restaurants) : $667,656 as against $769,024. Barker Bros. Corp. (furniture, rugs...
...existence. Octavia's frivolous hostess damns them as staunch Tories who nevertheless know nothing and care nothing about politics: "No one down here reads or writes. They eat, sleep, buy and sell horses, walk to the stables and back, tap the thermometer, fuss over their top boots, put ammonia in their baths; and such powers as they've got of conversation are exercised upon their stud grooms...
...White. What Science has done Science can undo. A telephone carried the catastrophic news to Berlin. Back flashed the advice of War Gas Army experts: "Pump ammonia into the air. Pump water, if that's all you've got. Throw the leaking phosgene tank into the canal. Water decomposes phosgene. Give the surviving patients milk...
...five stores, complete restaurants, expect a full line of drugs. Customers whisper, their faces impassive as possible, hygienic and illegal requests to the Happiness clerks. The clerks on such frequent occasions are embarrassed. Frankly they explain that at their counters they have only bromo seltzer, aromatic spirits of ammonia, bicarbonate of soda and epsom salts, nothing more...