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Word: pnemonia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Last week Col. Prector, 72, lay critically ill of pnemonia in a Cincinnati hospital. †A by-product of soap is glycerine. During Depression, prices of glycerine dropped so low that soap makers let it run down the sewers. An unprecedented demand for anti-freeze mixtures during the winter, a pick-up in the use of industrial explosives and war talk has made the price of crude glycerine from a low of 4? per lb. in 1933 to about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stampede to Soap | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

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