Word: epsom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There will be no Derby at Epsom, near London, this year. But for the Grand National Steeplechase, staged for 101 years at Aintree-"on the safe side" of England-the British Government last week lifted its ban on crowd-gathering (no more than 15,000 in one place at one time), permitted the chase to be held as usual...
...able to make a substantial improvement on Liebig's method. In most of the 500 U. S. plants, workmen with porcelain pitchers tediously hand-poured the liquid on flat plates of glass, had to wait a half-hour or more for the solution (silver ammonium nitrate and Rochelle Epsom salts) to deposit its silver...
...went to work on a new process, managed to support his Peacock Laboratories meanwhile by supplying advice, standardized silvering solution, special rubber gloves and other mirror-making accessories to the trade. Near last year's end he found the answer, a speedier solution (his trade secret) to replace Epsom salts as a reducing agent. With the new solution he could silver a mirror in 57 seconds, instead of over half an hour. Better still, the solution could be blown on by an air gun. With his process, mirror-makers could throw away their pitchers and work on a high...