Word: magnesia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1920 steelmaking has had a big swing to the open-hearth process. These furnaces, lined with dolomite (lime and magnesia oxide), are primed with plate scrap and limestone, then charged with pig iron, scrap and ore, and heated. Gas expelled from the limestone stirs the mixture, helps form the slag. A furnaceman spoons out samples, cools them to test quality, then adjusts the heat to get just the quality he wants. After about twelve hours the furnace is tapped, the steel ladled off. The Bessemer process is three times faster than the open-hearth, and correspondingly cheaper; but since...
...McKesson & Robbins assets. That Coster's crude drug department and its agencies had masked bootlegging operations during prohibition was generally agreed; that it had later turned from alcohol to bootlegging munitions was indicated by reports 1) that rifles had been received in Spain in cases labeled milk of magnesia; 2) that a McKesson & Robbins official had asked a Bridgeport bank to collect $30,000,000 owed the company for an arms shipment. It remained uncertain whether the missing money had been stolen or whether it had never existed-possibly fictitious profits had been built up merely in order...
...persons with temporary constipation, who are too impatient to wait for the bowel rhythm to re-establish itself, Dr. Aaron suggests certain mild laxatives. Unobjectionable are mineral oil, milk of magnesia, cascara sagrada. "Least objectionable" for habitual constipation is agar, a dried mucilaginous extract of East Asian seaweed, which produces a large bland bulk in the bowel. "Mineral waters, whether natural or artificial, should not be used. . . ." Dr. Aaron went on to advise readers to avoid any cathartic pills that contain aloe, aloin (both somewhat irritant drugs), or strychnine; also any laxative chocolates, candies, chewing gums that contain phenolphthalein...
Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. sells under its own brand name in its famed department store some 3,000 articles including bicarbonate of soda, Epsom salts, witch hazel, face powder, lipstick, milk of magnesia, shaving cream, peroxide, cascara pills. Last week a consignment of 48 of ''Macy's Own" drugs and cosmetics, including those named, arrived not at Broadway & 34th Street but in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where it soon filled a large window and several counters in the "Boston Store" of Fowler, Dick & Walker. Wilkes-Barre citizens, dripping from an all-day downpour, bought...
...final tremor of excitement was caused when Mayor Alfred N. Phillips Jr. (Milk of Magnesia) of Stamford, Conn, proposed that the mayors censure Stockbroker Edward F. Hutton for urging business to "gang up" on the New Deal (see p. 60). A Republican protested and Mayor Phillips was ruled out of order...