Word: salting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yield of fabrics and skeleton, that they could not attain an elevation of more than 6,500 ft. The bastions ,of the Rockies, therefore, were impassable; they felt obliged to skirt them. The route was changed. Leaving Chicago, they were scheduled to fly, not by way of Cheyenne and Salt Lake City, but to veer south, with Omaha, Dallas and Tucson as their main stopping places on the sky trail to California...
...play argues amiably the thesis that kindly virtue is likely to succeed even without intelligence. The central character buys oil wells from the villains. The content of these wells materializes as salt water. There is another act in which the properties are tendered again unto the villains for $190,000. Suspense is presumably maintained by the fickle character of these gushers as they become good, bad, and indifferent according to the playwright's exigencies...
...Professor Frederick G. Donnan, of London, suggested that as a future source of fuel we may use waterpower to obtain chlorine from salt, the gas to be used as a fuel. Jerome Alexander countered with a proposition to use waterpower to break up water into hydrogen and oxygen for use as fuel. By these means it is proposed to make great savings in transmitting power...
...figure square as a dice, red skin, pepper and salt tresses, pendulous cheeks...
Persons living off the route may utilize the service by mailing their letters, at no cost additional to the airplane postage, to the nearest of the following Central Post Offices: New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha, Cheyenne, Reno, Salt Lake City, San Francisco...