Word: glue
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glue...
...audiences with the fact that Mormonism is a successful religion if ever there was one. Accompanying the pageant would be music from one of Mormondom's most cherished treasures- its mighty organ. In 1866 oxen began hauling the logs which formed its 32-foot diapason, its tiny flutinos. Glue was made by boiling strips of cattle and buffalo hides. Recently reconstructed, the instrument, with 5,500 pipes, is among the world's largest, draws comparisons with those in Frieburg, London's Crystal Palace, Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral. Designed on a monumental, historic scale...
...affiliated with J. P. Morgan & Co., Guggenheim Bros. is in its second generation. No. i Guggenheim was Meyer, born in Switzerland in 1828, emigrating to the U. S. 19 years later. In Philadelphia, No. i Guggenheim vended various things, but first began making large profits through shoe-polish and glue. In 1872 he entered the embroidery business, taking into the firm his four eldest (of seven) sons: Daniel, Murry, Solomon, and Simon...