Word: causticity
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...nitrates on his fields; a townsman may drive his car over Tarvia roads or keep out the rain with Barrett roofing; a housewife may buy Polar moth balls. But the average indirect consumer never sees the aniline in his blue serge suit, the tanning alkalis in his oxfords, the caustic soda in his soap, the soda ash in his window panes. For Allied is primarily a purveyor of heavy chemicals to heavy industry...
...LaGuardia's counter proposal was an immediate 20% reduction as evidence of Mr. Carlisle's good faith. Caustic though it was, the Mayor's reply by no means closed the door to further palaver...
...Note: The section of the article by Vincent X. Flaherty of the Washington Herald, to which Mr. Richards refers, follows: "And so to Harvard goes Dick Harlow.--To the banks of the Cambridge where Harlow, a man of modern football destiny, takes over the once proud heritage of flery, caustic-tongued Percy Haughton. And if it's a prediction you want, let it be said here that Dick Harlow, from little Western Maryland and the hills of Westminster, will one day climb that lofty pedestal of immorality (sic) that could only be synonymous with Haughton and Harvard...
Asked to address a luncheon for 450 welfare workers in Manhattan's Hotel Astor last week, Mrs. Rockefeller spent a fortnight writing the first public speech of her life, a gravely caustic lecture on the obligations of wealth. Excerpts...
Anybody with a few pennies and a big pot can make soap from fat and caustic soda. The only trick is to make the soap strong enough to take off the dirt but not so strong as to take off the skin. Selling soap is another matter. And soap is moulded, colored, perfumed, chipped, flaked, powdered and blown through the end of a nozzle for the sole purpose of making a housewife buy one soap instead of another. Indeed, the defense went further last week, arguing that the form of Ivory Snow, Supersuds or Rinso had little to do with...