Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such footnotes to the American Revolution made interesting reading but Arriba was not quite telling all. Hoping to weaken both British imperialism and the threat of a people's government in the New World, Spain had sent the colonies secret shipments of clothing, salt and munitions through the private mercantile house of Gardoqui & Sons-but only in quantities calculated to protract the struggle without making a real decision possible. When Washington's army began winning important victories, Spanish interest in the Revolution abruptly vanished...
...promote this ambitious program, N.A.M. followed its recent policy of picking a small businessman as president. Its choice: handsome, athletic Claude Adams Putnam, 59, head of the 200-man Markem Machine Co. in Keene, N.H., who succeeds Salt Lake City's Paint-Maker Wallace F. Bennett in N.A.M.'s top elective post. Putnam got his start in business at 16 as a machine-shop apprentice, and joined Markem when it was founded in 1911. He soon became its top salesman, and in 1929, its president. Proud that his non-union company has never laid off a single...
...salt-marsh species so thoroughly adapted themselves to life with DDT that it took ten times the regular dose to kill their wiggler offspring. The discovery justified an uneasy suspicion held by entomologists: when the weaker members of the tribe are killed off, the survivors, mating together, gradually produce a strain that can ignore...
...Washington's National Gallery admitted ordinary visitors to its showing of the family treasures of Austria's Habsburgs, there were plenty of such rich and marvelous knickknacks for folks to goggle at. including jeweled goblets, an emerald cream jar, embossed parade armor, even a nine-lb. golden salt cellar wrought by Benvenuto Cellini. But the finest treasures of all in the $80,000,000 loan exhibition had been put together with only a few dollars worth of paint and canvas. Among them were seven Tintorettos, twelve Titians, nine Rubenses, six Velasquezes, Dürer's big, bloody...
After six centuries of growth, the Habsburg collection was appropriated in 1918 by the Austrian Republic. Stored in salt mines during World War II, it was recovered by General Patton's Third Army, and sent on a triumphal tour of Europe and the U.S. by liberated Austria. For the transatlantic crossing, the collection was packed into the hold of a refrigerated Navy supply ship (hold temperature...