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...from Michigan brine wells and Texas sea water (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941), bulks largest in the new increased capacity. But in recent months new producers using other processes have swelled the total. Some use variations of the Dow method to recover magnesium from waste liquors of ammonia soda and. potash manufacture. Others are for the first time commercially smelting the widespread U.S. magnesium ores...
Oriental seaweeds are not found on every U.S. dinner table, but they play a big enough part in U.S. diet so that wartime shortages are critical. So the harvesting of California kelp, which declined after World War I, is booming again. Kelp was formerly used for potash; giant kelp yields 50 lb. of potash per ton. Now seaweeds are wanted for their algin and agar-agar, used in dairy, bakery and confectionery...
...Francis Sales Prize of $75 for proficiency in Spanish composition, was awarded to Robert A. Potash '42, of Cambridge, Mass...
Newbold R. Landon, Baltimore, Md.; Solomon B. Levine, Brookline; Paul T. Lowry, Price, Ut.; Joseph M. Miller, Brookline; Herbert A. Potash, Cambridge; Frederic G. Ranney, Jr., London, EngEng.; William A. Reed, Glasgow, Mont.; Donald M. Roynolds, Mauette, Wash.; John C. Robbins, Jr., Cloveland Heights, O.; Allan M. Sachs, New York City; Lowis N. Sandler, Verous, N. J.; Albert J. Smith, Indianapolis, Ind.; John J. Sepka, Elizabeth, N. J.; Edmund B. Spacth, Jr., Philadelphia...
...Rawlings explained that the girl was too old to learn her ways. Said 'Geechee: "If I don't do to suit you, you can cut my throat." At dawn 'Geechee began to scrub down the house-walls, floors and ceilings. She used up six cans of potash. She wore a hole in the kitchen floor pursuing a stain. "I shall never have a greater devotion," said Author Rawlings, "than I had from this woman." Soon 'Geechee grew confidential. She explained her blind eye: "I disremember did I get the lick before they...