Word: salts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week a book reviewer commonly reads and meditates five or six books, but an art reviewer often has to view and comment on as many as 40 shows. His hurried kindnesses (Mr. Devree's in particular) are notorious. Since no artist who is worth his salt gives a damn whether he gets a nice "press" or not, this absence of criticism chiefly benefits the art business...
Died. Joseph Don Carlos Young, 83, last of Brigham Young's 25 sons; of old age; in Salt Lake City. Of the late Mormon leader's 56 children, born to him by 16 wives, only four daughters (aged 68, 75, 77, 78) survive...
...Salt Lake City, Professor Thomas C. Adams of the University of Utah announced, after tests with Boy Scouts, that the best thing to toss to a person drowning in Great Salt Lake is a 15-lb. anchor...
...Taft book is how much of their unpretentious but now invaluable work has been carelessly lost; almost as great a revelation is the amount that survives. Samples : a covered-wagon caravan forming a wide circle for the night; the U. S. mail-coach with riflemen atop it, leaving muddy Salt Lake City...
...this manner, but never airlines. Ironic angle was that American Airlines, which last week showed the way for future interchange of air services, had only last year successfully opposed the plan of United Air Lines and Western Air Express to fly each other's equipment-United Mainliners from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles, W. A. E.'s ships to Chicago-as a convenience to passengers who otherwise had to be routed out of sleeper berths at unearthly hours to change planes. Reason: such a pooling would have let unfranchised United ships into American-T. W. A.-monopolized...