Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stink Puff, Pigs Fleas...
Please pass the stink puff...
...wealth of the great Vanderbilt syndicate behind him, he worked on theories no one had had a chance to apply before. When he put in an aluminum alloy duralumin metal mast, painted white, sailors called it the "bean blower" and scornfully predicted that it would collapse in the first puff. It is made in two layers held together by 100,000 rivets. It is much lighter and stronger than wood. For firmness, it was stepped in a water-tight steel tub full of molten metal-"Wood's metal" (tin, lead, and bismuth) which melts...
...made of Portland cement, sand and small quantities of lime, aluminum powder, soda. When poured out in thick liquid form, the presence of the aluminum powder in an alkaline solution causes a chemical reaction, liberates hydrogen, forms a cellular structure. Within a half-hour after pouring, aerocrete begins to puff up. At the end of an hour, expansion reaches its limit, the material hardens. By varying the amount of ingredients, expansion can be controlled, may vary from 50% to 150% of original volume...
...from a money lenders' association in consideration for services rendered . . . that on April 4, 5, 12 and 23 the Daily Mail openly charged members of this House with using their position as members of this House and of using facsimiles of House stationery for writings that were described as 'puff letters' in return for which they were paid sums of money...