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...Kingston, Ont, a boy named Cronk loaded his water pistol with ammonia, squirted it through a keyhole. A boy named Lord who was peeking in lost an eye. The Lords sued the Cronks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, Fred Doboriewitz, 24, dry cleaner, left his open ammonia cleaning tank to telephone his sweetheart for forgiveness of a quarrel. She was unrelentant. He shuffled broken-hearted back to his ammonia tank to weep against its edge. The fumes asphyxiated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...brief hold-up occurred over hexamethylenetetramine (derivative of formaldehyde and ammonia used in medicine and vulcanized rubber) when Generalissimo Smoot could not pronounce it. Ink rates fell suddenly with a great black splash over the regulars. Epsom salts collapsed feebly under the jabbing attack of the Coalition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Rate Encounters | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Mendeleff, periodic system of the elements; Davy, miner's lamp; Perkin, mauve synthetic coal tar dyes; Faraday, electro magnetic induction; Curie, Radium; Priestley, oxygen; Gay-Lussac, law of combining volumes of gases; Dalton, atomic theory; Solvay, soda from ammonia; Ramsay, the Noble gases; Lavoisier, originator of modern chemistry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Pont de Nemours, for technical assistance in building ammonia fertilizer factories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Ruble in the Hand | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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