Word: potash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since 1860 the U. S. has been almost entirely dependent on Europe for one very essential chemical: potash.* Last year the U. S. made history by producing 52% of its potash at home. Recently the annual report of the Bureau of Mines revealed that fact. Last week the consequences of it became apparent: Europe launched a potash war to recover the U. S. market...
...right hand will know perfectly well what the left hand is doing, this will make it possible for the Government to prosecute and trade with Business at the same time. First clients for the new service: a group of California oil operators, a set of executives from the potash industry, both now under investigation...
From vast, subterranean Michigan streams Dow Chemical Co. pumps brackish water, produces aspirin, phenol, ammonia, chlorine. From the vast Pacific, Great Western Electro-Chemical Co. dredges salt, manufactures liquid chlorine, caustic soda, caustic potash. In a corporate chemical reaction last month these two companies decided to combine. Last week their stockholders approved the process. Catalyst of the consolidation was Willard Henry Dow, elder son of the late, great Chemist Herbert Henry Dow. No chemical genius but an efficient business executive, Willard Dow graduated from University of Michigan in 1919, went to work for his father as a department head, succeeded...
Thomas F. O'Loughlin Jr., Hartford, Conn., John J. O'Neill, Taunton, Mass., Thomas J. O'Toole, Newton, Mass., Robert L. Post, Haverford, Pa., Robert A. Potash, Roxbury, Mass., Charles A. Poutas, Weston, Mass., Amos L. Proctor, Somerville, Mass., Thomas C. Quirk, Watertown, Mass., Adrian Recinos Jr., Washington, D. C., Donald M. Reynolds, Manette, Wash., William L. Roney Jr., Winter Park, Fla., Sol Schnayerson, New York, N. Y., Frederick J. Sears Jr., North Attleboro, Mass., Gerald Segal, Cambridge, Mass., Irving G. Small, Peabody, Mass., John J. Sopka, Elizabeth, N.J., Roger P. Stokey, Atlanta, Ga., Raymond W. Stone, Meriden...
Robert Aaron Potash, Roxbury, Massachusetts--Boston Public Latin School...