Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your admirable review of political corruption in the States you touched upon the activities of the shoe-polish interests in Louisiana, their ardor in drilling new wells for the purpose of making carbon black, in turn to be used in the manufacture of shoe-polish "and other products...
Carbon black is an important ingredient in the manufacture of automobile tires. High quality black is one great factor in giving automobile users of today far greater tire mileage than they had ten years ago. That, assuredly, is more important than shoe-polish, according to the standards of today...
...factory already operates in the great gas field north of this city. Another large manufacturer now operating in the East is pleading before the high courts for a chance to open a carbon plant. Probably it was carbon black that helped tell your readers about shoe-polish. There are scores of other interesting uses for this black dust that is captured as it flies up from hordes of tiny natural gas candles in the smoke-blanketed carbon black area of the Louisiana gas field. And the "wet" gas furnishes carload after carload of gasoline before it is used...
...Prince are the major features. There are only a handful of chorus girls; each in her time plays many parts. The scenery is by the briskly amusing John Held Jr. Charles Butterworth, Notre Dame 1923 and utterly unknown to Broadway fame, was the funniest performer. The hesitant and quizzical polish of Mr. Atwell is agreeably employed in ballyhooing the show's progress between scenes...
...Name two products besides shoe-polish that are made from carbon black...