Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means as big as many another U. S. chemical company. "Salt" has plants at Natrona, Philadelphia, Wyandotte, Mich., and Tacoma, Wash., owns a controlling interest in Taylor Chemical Corp. of Penn Yan, N. Y. "Salt" sells germicides, liquid chlorine, acidproof cement, bleaching powders, lyes, numerous other chemicals, but makes no table salt...
...sewer," it came from the almost-ripened potato plants, lay so thick that in some places it was visible as a whitish cloud above them. Where it appeared, leaves turned first purplish-brown, then black; stems withered, so that they broke at the touch, oozing a pus-colored liquid; the potatoes, when dug, were soggy and black with putrescence, rank-smelling...
...only the human lungs but the bowels breathe. Dr. Dillon, a U. S. emigre practicing in Moscow, explained: "Air which has found access into the stomach and then into the intestines can be sucked into the blood. Especially it is true about oxygen which can dissolve in any liquid of the digestive tract. There is no impediment of anatomic character to such absorption of oxygen through the walls of the digestive tract, for the digestive tract embryologically comes from the same source as the respiratory tract. Comparative physiology presents indisputable proofs of a respiratory function of the digestive tract...
...spray effective in small children whose nostrils are too narrow to admit the tip of an atomizer. An extra amount of the protective solution is sprayed into the lower part of the child's nares. Then for a moment the child is held upside down, thus causing the liquid to flow against the nerves of smell which must be covered, if the virus of infantile paralysis is to be kept from invading the brain and spine...
...convention floor. Menus, it was declared, are becoming larger, less cluttered with items, often illustrated, because "what the eye sees the mind may want." Deploring "leakage at the bar," Restaurant Accountant James E. McNamara observed that '"in the first place it is easier to waste a liquid than a solid; in the second place there is much more temptation to employes in a bottle than in a box. . . ." Sales Manager A. A. Schipke of International Silver Co. besought the stewards to screen their garbage cans and buy genuine silver. "In Massachusetts," said he, "we recovered two tons of silver...