Word: brine
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...rice. In East Pakistan's capital of Dacca, 125 miles from the sea, millions spent four terrified hours in the dead of night as banshee winds raked off corrugated iron hut roofs and wound them around telephone poles, shredded power lines and choked water mains and wells with brine...
...Tapping Brine. Morton grew out of a small agency established in Chicago in 1848 to distribute salt shipped via the Erie Canal from producers in the East. The expansion of Chicago's meatpacking industry after the Civil War really started the company growing; salt is one of the world's most effective preservatives. The growth also attracted a 24-year-old railroad clerk named Joy Morton, who joined the firm in 1879, owned it by 1885. Morton found salt deposits in nearby Michigan, began producing his own supply, gave the company his name and remained president...
...addition to its eleven U.S. plants, Morton has six in Canada and another eight in Latin America and the West Indies. It owns the largest salt-research laboratory in the U.S., is building a pilot plant to tap power and extract chemicals from the large reservoir of hot brine under the Salton Sea in California's Imperial Valley. It is also the only company that extracts salt by all three existing production methods: dry mining, brine pumping and solar evaporation of salt water...
...many disorders of the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys, one of the most troublesome symptoms is the ancient complaint "the dropsy"?retention of salt and water so that the patient becomes bloated with brine. If the victim already has heart trouble, the edema will make it worse. In the mildest cases, cutting out salt may be adequate treatment. For more severe cases, a variety of chemicals is available. But some patients become resistant to any one medicine, so they have to switch prescriptions, and doctors eventually run out of alternatives...
...need--not now anyway. The Brattle could come up with a totally mindless festival without half trying. Cowboy films say. Gunfight at the OK Corral, Shane, Broken Arrow, the Virginian. A flash of gunfire and the mind is soothed. Or navy films, consciousness corroded by a film of brine. The Caine Mutiny, Run Silent, Run Deep, even Captain Horatio Hornblower...