Word: causticity
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...weeks in Great Britain had given Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr that high-low opinion of the British and U.S. Army education systems. In last week's Nation he cited chapter and verse, was at his caustic best on the subject of the U.S. Army daily paper Stars & Stripes: It "not only carries baseball box scores but has a daily photo of some glamor queen, usually a Hollywood star . . . presumably for the purpose of providing 'pin-ups.' ... In short, nothing is lacking . . . except serious discussion about the meaning of the war and the best means...
...Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." To Novelist Charles Brackett, he seemed "a competent old horror with a style that combined clear treacle and pure black bile." Critic Percy Hammond found him "a mountainous jelly of hips, jowls and torso [but with] brains sinewy and athletic." Caustic Wit Dorothy Parker thought that he did "more kindness" than anyone she had ever known...
...rubber-reclaiming plants the scrap is first sheared and hashed into tiny pieces.It is then sifted past magnets, which draw out any bits of iron. Next it is dumped into a "digester" tank where 1) caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) is added to destroy all cloth fibers and to remove free sulfur (added originally in vulcanizing); 2) coal-tar oils are added to soften the rubber. These added chemicals and decomposed fibers are rinsed out in water sprays and settling tanks. At last the rubber is squeezed into heavy sheets and baled for reprocessing...
...made of relatively abundant materials: 1) caustic soda (sodium hydroxide), 2) sulfur, 3) chlorine, 4) ethylene (a gas sometimes used as an anesthetic...
Thiokol advocates were sure that big-scale production could begin at once. Said jubilant President Willard Dow of Dow Chemical Co.: "The caustic soda we shall derive from salt. Texas alone can supply all the sulfur we shall ever need. Chlorine at present is being allocated, but we can step up production to meet all requirements. Ethylene we can get from oil or from corn, wheat or any other agricultural waste or surplus by first converting it into alcohol...