Word: brine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back from a long, weary passage to India with war materials, a brine-streaked merchant vessel last week landed the largest shipment of Ceylon tea ever to arrive at New York. The cargo, 35,000 chests (over 3 million lb.) of tea (enough to last U.S. tea drinkers three weeks), is a part of the 65 million lb. in the U.S. quota under last April's British-American allocation agreement...
When war came, Dow Chemical Co. was the only domestic producer pouring the silver-white ingots in any quantity. Probably the Dow process, chemically and electrically cajoling the metal from Michigan brine wells and Texas sea water (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941), bulks largest in the new increased capacity. But in recent months new producers using other processes have swelled the total. Some use variations of the Dow method to recover magnesium from waste liquors of ammonia soda and. potash manufacture. Others are for the first time commercially smelting the widespread U.S. magnesium ores...
...talked with early Argentine delegates. He had a look at the site of the coming meetings-historic Tiradentes Palace, named for Brazil's revolutionary hero, a dentist (tiradente means "tooth-puller") who was hanged by the Portuguese 150 years ago and his body quartered and sent in brine as a warning to all parts of the country...
Mining the Ocean. A year ago magnesium was extracted from only one source, Michigan's brine wells; by only one enterprising producer, Dow Chemical Co.; and by only one method, electrolysis of molten magnesium chloride recovered from salt water. This is a chemical trick so old that it is known as a prior art and is not patentable. Last winter Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold's division of the Department of Justice sued Dow as a monopoly, but the chief reason that Dow had magnesium all to itself was that before the U.S. began rushing warplanes there...
Until this spring, Dow drew all its magnesium from its inexhaustible brine wells at Midland, Mich. From these it is now extracting magnesium at the rate of 12,000 tons a year-26 times as much as in 1929. This spring Dow tapped a new source which has stirred everyone's imagination : it began mining sea water for magnesium at a great $15,000,000 plant at Freeport, Tex., which by year's end will be sucking in 12,000,000 gallons a day (enough water for a city of 120,000) and turning out 50 tons...