Word: potash
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Many Mansions was the product of a father-&-son collaboration. Jules Eckert Goodman, a weathered playwright (Potash and Perlmutter, 21 others), eagerly helped Son Eckert concoct his first play. The well-meant result is like Alice's Mock Turtle...
...afternoon last week the Palestine Potash Works on the Dead Sea closed for the rest of the day. On the same day the New York Times printed in honor of one man three columns of close-packed memorial notices. Demonstrations of sympathy occurred in such far-flung places as London, Jerusalem, Paris. For death had come to Felix Moritz Warburg, 66, banker, philanthropist, recognized leader of U. S. Jews...
...Delia's boy friend David too. David conveniently writes a novel, gets $25,000 for the movie rights, spurns Clarisse, marries Delia. Papa Kadan is further gratified when his stupid son Bert, an amateur boxer, marries the daughter of his wealthy business rival. Less amusing than Potash & Perlmutter, less sure-fire than Abie's Irish Rose, Be So Kindly had more point under its original title, In Gold We Trust...
Anniversary. It was in 1635 that John Winthrop the Younger, son of Massachusetts' second Governor, returned from a visit to England as the first Governor of Connecticut, with a commission from Lords Saye and Brook empowering him to develop the production of salt, iron, glass, potash, tar, black lead, saltpetre, medicines, copper, alum...
...emphasized the inexhaustible supply of potash, a mineral useful in fertilizer and munitions, in the Dead Sea as a source of British interest in Palestine...