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Alkaline Cell. Lighter, but giving less than one and a half volts, is the alkaline cell which Thomas Alva Edison perfected. This contains a caustic potash solution; thin sheets of nickelplated steel contain shallow pockets. Pockets of the positive plate are filled with nickel peroxide mixed with a finely flaked metallic conductor. In pockets of the negative plate finely divided iron is mixed with the same metallic conductor. (Originally, in both plates, the conductor was graphite...
Products. The amalgamated companies will produce a huge volume of nitrates and potash, both extensively used as fertilizers; dyes; also rayon (cotton fabrics chemically treated to resemble silk...
...other day. TIME had resurrected the lost. Allow me to quote from the letter of my friend : . . . "I get a great deal of enjoyment out of reading TIME each week as it comes in. It is just the thing for a busy prac tical person." A. K. GlNSBURG American Potash & Chemical Corp. Trona, Calif. No Such Organization...
...high prices from consumers, was liable to get his ears chopped off. Modern monopolies are forestallers incorporated, and are punished, within a particular nation, through anti-trust laws. But no laws yet exist against monopolies (forestallings) in international trade. Brazil controls coffee, Russia platinum, Chile saltpetre, Germany and France potash, Great Britain tin and rubber...
...compare office methods of today with those of a quarter of a century ago. But commercialism ceases to be a blessing when it enters other fields besides its own; art, religion, education; in short, the general tenor of life, should be closed to its influence. Someone--either Mr. Potash or Mr. Perlmutter--once said that the golden rule was "business before pleasure". The aphorism could be expanded to "business before, perhaps after, but certainly not with, pleasure," he dollar kings should have the grace to leave their financial acumen outside of the church, the schoolhouse, the theatre, and the drawing...