Word: brine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hull down in Pacific brine, squat, ugly U.S. freighters were last week carrying the second A.E.F.-men and materials for action in the Far East. Hundreds of young U.S. volunteers were en route to fight in China's skies (TIME, June 23). Advisers were going; men of every skill and walk of life were setting out, some for freedom's sake, some for adventure...
Impatience with the Senate last week had finally risen to a clamor. Columnists, editorial writers, radiorators volleyed & thundered. The isolationists were cursed with bell, book and candle; Administration leaders were wigged and trimmed for their fumbling delay; cartoonists kept a brush in brine for the isolationist leader, Montana's Burton K. Wheeler...
...Chemical Co., indicted last month with Aluminum Co. of America and three other firms for conspiring with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie to hold down U. S. production through patent control (TIME, Feb. 10). Dow produced the nation's 6,500 tons last year from Michigan brine wells, is now building a plant at Freeport, Tex., to extract another 6,500 tons a year from the Gulf's salt water. When the Freeport and Kaiser-Reilly plants are going full blast, U. S. production will jump to at least 25,000 tons a year, four times...
...monopoly control. Named chief co-defendants with Alcoa and I. G. Farbenindustrie were American Magnesium Corp. (half owned by Alcoa), which is the chief U. S. processor of magnesium, and Dow Chemical Co., which in 1927 developed a native American process for extracting the metal from Michigan brine wells...
...with piles driven down to bed rock. The cut & cover method (trench-like excavation covered with wooden flooring) necessitated digging through a tangle of telephone cables, power lines, water mains, gas pipes, pneumatic mail tubes, sewer pipes, steam mains, telegraph wires, police and fire alarm lines, conduits for refrigerator brine, burglar alarm wires, quotation ticker lines, traffic signal wires. Without suspending these services, the pipes and wires had to be slung from the flooring or rerouted on the surface. Where the cut & cover method was not adaptable, direct tunneling had to be done-sometimes with compressed air and a shield...