Word: salting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prehistoric Indians of the central Mississippi Valley had forestalled the modern chemist in making and using evaporating pans and precipitating jars which they employed in the manufacture of salt. These utensils were of pottery. The shallow pans were two to four feet in diameter. The precipitating jars were about two feet high and four inches across at the top, tapering to a point; at the bottom. These jars were furnished with covers, to protect the contents. The brine was collected from saline springs, placed in the jars, and allowed to stand until sediment had formed. The clear brine was then...
...Salt Water Spoils Many Pools...
...rainbow was short-lived, however. One of the commonest natural phenomena of the oil fields is the entrance of salt water into the oil-bearing formation from the borders of a pool, encroaching more and more according as the gas pressure is released, so that in time the pool is entirely flooded and must be abandoned. Many pools in Oklahoma, Kansas, Ohio and elsewhere were doomed to early decline from this cause, and the present more serious decline of the Mexican fields arises in a similar manner. While not all oil-bearing strata contain salt water, the majority of them...
...away with if:? What is the fine outward air of indifference (we are still looking at the matter from the point of view of the ordinary observer) but a proof of aristocracy either of descent or of mind? If a college education is worth the salt that the graduate has eaten in getting it, it has taught him to be himself, and not to ape somebody else. The in different man who goes out on the common ways of life, saying to himself "Go to, I will not be in different," is likely to make an as of himself...
...autocracy of labor,--the open shop. The suppression of individual bargaining would be of inestimable value to the unions; armed with a monopoly of production they would be in a better position to pry further into our national life. But the people at large have had their pinch of salt; they will not tolerate the brine...