Word: borax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Health Ministry has all but adopted new health regulations prohibiting the preservation of hams and bacon by the use of borax. This regulation follows a similar one already in force in the U. S. But it will cost the U. S. packers shipping to Britain almost $4,000,000 a year, since henceforward U. S. meats must be shipped in cold storage the year round, instead of only in summer...
...Honorary President. Down the long table, fenced with formal shirtfronts, candles shone on the sparkling glasses, on the dishes and dishes of food that succeeded one another. Savory food it was, nourishing, succulent; but on the little cards beside each place it was called by strange names-Borax, Benzoate, Coal Tar, Copper Sulfate, Saltpeter, Saccharin. Thus were those dishes named, each after a poison, out of sentiment. For, had it not been for Dr. Wiley, the names might have become the dishes, though they would have been called Bread, Jam, Sugar, Chocolate, out of sentiment. Each of the items...