Word: borax
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...manufacturers are members of world copper, electric bulb, aluminum, zinc and borax cartels...
...Poison Squad," twelve young men from his staff who at his command ate only adulterated foods. Their sufferings he reported with dramatic detail. The "Poison Squad" won him general public support. As a result unscrupulous manufacturers must be skillfully stealthy to put into their products boric acid, borax, salicylic acid, salicylates, sulphurous acid, sulphites, benzoic acid, benzoates (except traces), formaldehyde, copper sulphate, saltpeter...
...Bibles, borax, strips of brass...
This increase in production will take borax out of the idle rich class of chemicals and put it to work in many industries which previously could not afford it. Already its value is well known. It has long been a familiar household god in the kitchen, a mild antiseptic (boric acid) in the medicine chest. It keeps glass from cracking under the strain of change in temperature; is used therefore in making lamp chimneys, incandescent lamps, baking dishes. Enamel ware, plumbing fixtures, chemical apparatus owe much of their resistance to borax. But wherever borax has gone in, the price...
This competition is being fostered by British finance in spite of the fact that the U. S. is now the greatest store and supply house for borax in the world. The American Potash and Chemical Corporation, present producers of borax from brine, are a subsidiary of the New Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa in London; the Pacific Coast Borax Co., present producers of borax from kernite, are a subsidiary of the Borax Consolidated of London...