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Word: salt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Traditionally inseparable are salt and pepper.* All laymen recognize their union, their happy partnership. Few laymen realize their fundamental differences. Salt is a mineral; pepper a vegetable. Salt is a domestic product; all black pepper is imported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Condiment Crises | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Last week, specialists in the salt and pepper markets noted a more acute, immediate difference. The price of salt goes steadily down. (TIME, Sept. 17.) But the price of pepper is soaring, rocketlike, to record heights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Condiment Crises | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...tons required each and every two weeks for Mortimer B. Fuller's private ocean, 100 miles from the seashore, are the least of the drains on International Salt's mines and evaporating plants. Next in order of unimportance is the production of table salt. Major uses of salt are found in the curing of hides, manufacture of soap, paper, ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sufficiently Saline | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Tense is the competition in the salt mining industry. Saltman Fuller saw net earnings fall from $507,339 in 1926 to $327,000 in 1927, to only $3,108 for the first six months of 1928. On the stock exchange, International Salt dropped from a high of 92 in 1923 to a low of 54⅛ in 1928. Lessened demand, competitive price cutting, are among apparent causes of depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sufficiently Saline | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...error. Saltman Fuller has no salt water system in his home. He has a device, however, for softening hard water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sufficiently Saline | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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