Word: brine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loop, another loop, a snap roll, a series of slow rolls, an Immelman. . . . Crowds at the Miami All-American Air Races had seen such stunts done before, but never by a plane like this one?a tiny Curtiss Teal amphibian. Dale ("Red") Jackson, co-holder with Forest O'Brine of the world's refueling duration record, was again qualifying for a nickname he earned two years ago? "Flying Fool.". . . Again he pulled the little ship over in a loop, began to straighten out after the dive?when a wing tore off, then another . . . Pilot Jackson died in the wreckage...
...sugar and syrup, straw hats, pigskin leather, edible gelatine, wood flour, wool felt hats), let stand unchanged six (ultramarine blue, wool floor coverings, pipes, pipe bowls, cigar and cigaret holders). The Commission's recommendation to cut the rates on canning tomatoes, tomato paste and cherries, sulphured or in brine, President Hoover rejected. Last week's flexing made the President's tariff score: rates cut, 11; rates upped, 6; rates unchanged, 14; total, 31. There are 3,200 articles listed in the Tariff...
...originally purchased was all the salt in that region. The Indians apparently .had done without salt until 1654, when Jesuit Missionary Simon le Moyne discovered that a spring from which the natives would not drink, thinking evil spirits gave it its stench, was a fountain of salt brine. Once salt was the leading product of the Syracuse district. Now no salt is manufactured there, but brine from the deposits is pumped 20 mi. to Solvay Process Co. which uses it in its alkali industry...
...Chemical has prospered phenomenally, made for itself a reputation unique in its industry. In the late 1880's Dr. Dow was a senior at Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland. He learned that the east central part of Michigan's lower peninsula is underlaid with great veins of brine and that salt from this brine was a failure because of impurities. He had the brilliant idea of extracting the impurities, making commercial use of them. In 1890, then 24, he went to Midland, bought with his partner a brine-well. He formed Midland Chemical Co., paid his board bill with...
...employs a corps of electricians for her liturgical performances. Sometimes she puts on a Sou'wester and has the electricians flash on a stormy seascape. Amid the tumbling brine six U. S. sailors are seen rowing for a lighthouse. She has also preached astride a motorcycle, attired as a policeman, a fireman. These properties are part of a large theatrical wardrobe...