Word: nitro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before the heavy weather of the post-War depression, Drugman Queeny put out a sea anchor in Britain by buying a half interest in a Welsh concern making phenol (pure carbolic acid). In 1929 Monsanto absorbed Rubber Service Laboratories with a plant in Nitro, W. Va. for producing chemicals used in rubber processing. Same year Monsanto acquired the Buffalo, N. Y. plant of Mathieson Alkali Works and Merrimac Chemical Co. at Everett, Mass., oldest and largest New England manufacturer of heavy chemicals for the textile, paper and tanning industries. Monsanto has lost money in only three years since...
...process is a simple one. First the fossil area in the rock is polished with an abrasive wheel. The area is then treated with acid, and coated with a special nitro-cellulose solution. When this has dried, forming a tough film, it is 'peeled' off and retains a carbonized impression of every detail. It is estimated that 500 specimens can be made from a fossil an inch thick. The specimens can be made very cheaply and are indestructible under ordinary handling...
...stranger to Lehigh, President-Elect Williams has known some of the older faculty members since he worked for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad 25 years ago. A graduate of Southern Iowa Normal School, he turned to teaching before the War, quit to supervise a government explosives plant at Nitro, Va. At University of Illinois, where he was head of the Engineering department from 1922 to 1926, he built one of the best hydraulic laboratories in the U. S. During his Iowa deanship, he built a television station. Twice married, he likes to hike with his three children, teaches a Sunday...
...they find a motley gang. "Some had been sentenced and were serving jail terms; others awaited trial or removal to the penitentiary." Old Crow, the stool pigeon trusty, "as bitter as St. Paul, and meaner in heart than Calvin;" the boy from the South who had killed his father; Nitro Dugan, the roving yegg, who had presided at the hobo "kangaroo trial" and execution of One Lung Riley, the ex-bum who had turned railroad detective and knew too much; Brother Jonathon, glib medicine-show barker, pretentious charlatan, kindly man of the world; Hypo Sleigh, the dope fiend, under whose...