Word: fuming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Equipped with large-capacity pumps at her waterline, the Ethyl will roam the seas, sucking up 7,000 gallons of water per minute. A recovery plant on board is expected to extract 100,000 lb. of bromine a month, the ocean waves and winds taking care of sewage and fume problems that would be troublesome on shore. If the Ethyl proves a treasure ship, a bromine fleet may soon follow her to sea. The experiment may also open a rich field in other ocean extracts?for instance, iodine...
...eminent statistician some time ago announced that the United States could not run more than twenty million motor cars. For more than that number there would be no money, no gas, no room, and no need. The increasing number of fume-emitting motors, according to public health officials, has made the Americans a race of blood-poisoned nervous wrecks. The nation is already half saturated with cars, and last month more were made than in any previous month. What dauntless courage is fostered in Detroit to assert that every man, woman, child, and college student will throw away their...
...entire staff was gathered into one room to witness a demonstration when one of the servants threw some fume-producing powder on the open fireplace and rushed out, locking the door after him. When the fumes had reduced the eye specialists to a state approximating to death, the robber appropriated all valuables...