Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schwartz and Peck found the manufacturers of adhesive tape as secretive about the ingredients and methods of manufacture as they are about the yearly yardage and dollar value of their plaster. Eventually the following list of ingredients became clear: rubber, rosin. "Burgundy" pitch, olibanum, beeswax, zinc oxide, anhydrous lanolin, starch, orris root...
Appropriate tests of those ingredients made separately on the skins of volunteers demonstrated that, apart from maceration and mechanical injury, rosins, pitch and smoke-cured wild rubber are the chief irritants. Complexion, previous skin diseases or a predisposition to shingles or other allergens apparently have nothing to do with the sensitivity to adhesive plaster found in one out of every hundred normal men, women & children...
...results of this game make things look pretty hopeful for the game on Soldiers Field this afternoon. The one hitch may come if Lincoln is found to be too tired to pitch. He will be well backed up, however, by Braggiotti and Bilodeau, either of whom may take the mound...
...Government of Action." It was pitch dark (3:10 a. m.) when M. Laval's white tie entered the President's Palace as the pale oriflamme of this new Cabinet: Premier & Foreign Minister: Pierre Laval, Independent...
Year ago TWA inaugurated overnight passenger service between New York and Los Angeles with its fast Douglases. Last week its great rival, United Air Lines, having completed a $1,000,000 program to speed up its Boeings with new geared engines and variable-pitch propellers, inaugurated overnight schedules between New York and nine major West Coast Cities. Typical schedule: leave Newark, 4:25 p. m.; arrive Portland...