Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City came up with a new trick in reducing ore to iron. By using anthracite instead of coke, Brassert can produce pure melting stock at $21 to $26 a ton (current average cost: $40); from the waste gas Brassert will make solid CO² (Dry Ice) at $15 a ton (present retail price: $35 to $65). In a new $1,250,000 iron-ice plant at New York, Brassert hopes to make enough the first year to pay off half the construction cost...
Despite its high prices and exalted clientele, the club itself doesn't make Hover as much money as his sidelines: Giro lipsticks, cigarette lighters, ashtrays, glassware. He makes his own ice cubes, carbonates his own water, and runs annual concerts-starring Xavier Cugat-in the Hollywood Bowl. Even juicier dividends come from the off-premises liquor sales and a catering service which runs many of the major studio parties. "I have found," Hover says, "that people will buy anything with the name Giro...
...Louis drugstores began selling a ten-scoop, multiflavored ice cream sundae called "Forever Ample...
...knee-length gabardine coat to cover the cassock that by law he is forbidden to wear in public. With him walked his chief aides: Tranquilino González, president of Querétaro's Chamber of Commerce; John Herbert, English owner of Querétaro's ice factory, and three other businessmen and lawyers. All were followers of Father Salvador García, the Querétaro priest who organized the first pilgrimage 57 years...
...best treatment? The two doctors recommended injections of ergotamine tartrate as soon as the headache starts. If this fails, try codeine. Also helpful: rest in bed in a quiet, dark room; an ice bag; sympathy from physician, family and friends. For long-range treatment, the migraine sufferer should work and plan less, rest and exercise more. Dr. Wolff has another treatment for headaches of the migraine type: standing on the head.* The upside-down position, he believes, causes a "constriction reflex" that eases the swelling in the arteries...