Word: crystallizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amalgamated Sugar, of which Marriner Eccles has been an officer since 1921, is one of the two great Mormon sugar companies. In 1929 it lost its independent status when the (gentile) American Beet Sugar Co. (now American Crystal Sugar Co.) acquired 99% of its common stock. Like all beet sugar companies Amalgamated had a terrible Depression. It piled up a cumulative operating deficit of $3735,000 (since reduced nearlyone-third) which made it impossible under Utah law for it to pay any dividends. American faced the prospect of not getting any return on its investment for perhaps ten years. Therefore...
...interrupted, "I know that Zinoviev ordered his own secretary to kill Stalin!" Said Zinoviev: "I acknowledge that." "The secretary," breathlessly continued Bakayev, "instead of killing Stalin killed himself!" Lecture by Kamenev, With the air of a professor addressing pupils of none too great intelligence and striving to make everything crystal clear, Prisoner Kamenev made his confession at such length that his lecture was interrupted four times by the changing of the soldiers guarding the prisoners' box. Gist of Kam-enev's confession was that Stalin's old enemy Leon Trotsky (ne Bronstein), who now lives exiled...
Every so often TIME reaches great journalistic heights in articles on exceedingly complex subjects that are made crystal-clear under TIME'S adroit pen. The article "Goal Behind Steel" (TIME, July 20) was one such...
...laboratory practice, a light beam's "fence" is a crystal, and the gaps which comb light are a crystal's parallel planes of cleavage. Polaroid is a suspension of crystals. The dazzling headlights at last week's demonstration were dimmed because the Polaroid in the lenses and in the windshield was aligned in conflicting directions. The light could thus pass through one but not through both...
...FULNESS of TIME-Gertrude Capen Whitney - Bruce Humphries ($2.50). Adventures of a great-souled Georgia spinster among a group of Pennsylvania Quakers caught in the toils of a mystical mystery. A string of crystal beads and a seeress play important, if incomprehensible, parts in this fictionized revelation of Truth...