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...fields, married Joseph Newton Pew (Welsh-English-Scottish-Irish, with a dash of Dutch and Palatinate blood), descendant of pre-Revolutionary traders, who had religious scruples against selling Indians fire water. After a massacre of settlers at Bushy Run, the early Pews developed practical scruples against selling Indians powder & shot. These scruples brought trade to a standstill, and the Pews became farmers. In 1859 they got in on Pennsylvania's first oil boom, struck it rich, stayed that way. Joseph Pew Sr. bought up oil properties right & left, moved to Philadelphia, died there in 1912, founder...
...that a heavy tax was about to be laid on cosmetics by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, a young London extrovert last week put on a pre-Coty gown of crinoline and a wig, went swishing to No. 11 Downing Street. The idea was that a paint-&-powder tax would send her back to the horse-&-buggy days. The idea did not permeate, for she was deftly grasped by London bobbies and whisked away as the tall, dry, Nonconformist Chancellor emerged from No. 11 with the worn and faded dispatch box in which for generations the British budget...
...River. Their chance of surviving by guerrilla warfare until the Allies came-shooting down on valley highways from ambushes along the hills-was endangered by a shortage of materiel. The Germans had captured the country's most important ammunition factory, at Kongsberg, arsenals at Nittedal and Raufoss, a powder factory, 1,000,000 rounds of rifle ammunition. This was bad news because Norway's Krag-Jorgsen rifles (6.5 mm.) will not shoot the 7.7-mm. bullet used by the Allies...
...make grass fit for human consumption, the chemists dried, bleached and ground the leaves of wheat, barley, oats and rye, produced a white powder with a slight malt flavor. The scientists ate this grass all winter, caught no colds, enjoyed excellent health. Three U. S. factories and one Canadian are now making powdered grass. Approximate cost...
After the first half of the lecture, Mallinckrodt MB9 became a virtual battle-field with every type of powder from Roger Bacon's original sulphur, saltpeter, and charcoal formula to the present high-explosive, gun-cotton, in prominent display and usage...