Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trees, Some 8% of the earth's crust is made of aluminum (an ingredient of all clay), but only a small portion of it is extractable. A 24-square-mile area in Arkansas is the chief U. S. source of bauxite, from which aluminum is commercially derived. Mr. Rice says Alcoa controls 19? square miles of this supply, and also has vast foreign holdings. U. S. aluminum is made under the Hall and the Bradley processes. Alcoa got ownership of both patents around the turn of the century; then, realizing that when the patents expired it would no longer...
...others being Hitler, Chamberlain, and an anonymous Jap. They all demonstrate their benevolence by treacherously and amusingly destroying one another. There is a denunciation of war, carried out by rather obscure ballet, and jibes are distributed to the Vassar girl who finds a job at Macy's, the upper crust on a slumming party, the 100 percent American, and the Federal Theatre, with its repressions and inhibitions, all of which are quite effective except the last, which drags. The most fun of the whole show, however, is the scene called Economics I, in which the elementary principles are set forth...
Likening the crust of the earth to a wrinkled layer of solid paraffin floating on an interior of melted paraffin, Reginald A. Daly, Sturgis Professor of Geology, discussed the roots of volcanoes before the American Geophysical Union in Washington Saturday...
After a fruitless 24 hours, the party stumbled on Gueffroy's skis. By prodding with bamboo poles through the new surface snow, searchers were able to tell where his feet had broken through the crust of the old snow. So they followed his trail, every few feet digging down to the crust to confirm their soundings. All that day and half the next they followed his confused, straggling steps deep into Sand Canyon...
...bowlers and tweeds), "lifts" in the grandstands, five bars, a ladies' tea room. But in spite of Director Allison's attempt to elevate the sport above the "cap & muffler" crowd, soccer is still, for the most part, the game of the working classes. England's upper crust still prefers cricket and rugby...