Word: powders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinchophen is a bitter white powder discovered in 1887 and used since 1908 as a treatment for gout, arthritis, rheumatic fever, neuralgia, neuritis, sciatica. By 1932 U. S. invalids were annually using 90,000 Ib. of cinchophen and its derivatives...
Besides these principal pegs on which Author Dos Passos hangs his narrative, scores of other characters appear, reappear and fade away. Eveline Hutchins, the Chicago Jazz-age girl, attains a Manhattan salon only to end her career with an overdose of sleeping powder. G. H. Barrow, labor-faker, gets a paunch and a fur overcoat by "settling" strikes. Ben Compton, a Brooklyn Jew turned radical and one of Mary French's lovers, finds his life ruined when he is read out of the Party for being a "disrupting influence." All of them - in politics, manufacturing, advertising, Wall Street...
...able proudly to announce that with assets of $40,000,000 it had not lost a cent since 1928 (TIME, Oct. 21). Also proudly, Dr. Master announced last month that the Board has divested itself of 200 shares of du Pont stock because "2% of their stock is in powder...
Died. Frederick Henry Harvey, 41, vice president of the famed Western Harvey railway restaurant chain and dining car service (for the Santa Fe) founded by his late grandfather; at Johnstown, Pa., when the airplane which he was piloting bashed through electric powder lines, burst into flames, burned him & his wife to death...
...society which kept Adria impregnably surrounded. He continued to think of her as sacred, his manicurist as profane. When the manicurist, a determined creature, followed him to Venice, the rest was easy. Though Francis never knew for certain how it happened that Adria took an overdose of sleeping-powder, he felt the responsibility was his. Too late he knew that he had profaned Adria's love by his vulgar idea of what was sacred...