Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Australia, near Exmouth Gulf, oil drillers struck salt water at 3,600 feet, the same level at which a nearby well had hit oil. In two frenzied days of panic selling, some stocks dropped as much as 50% on the Sydney exchange; the total value of oil shares dropped an estimated $67 million. Australia's secretary...
Shake-Out. Salt prepackaged in little (4 oz.) cardboard shakers was brought out by Chicago's Morton Salt Co. Price: about 25? for a packet of three...
...seated around an open fire. I was invited to join them and a wrinkled old hag was ordered to make tea. She poured a quart of dark, steaming tea into a wooden churn, added a quarter-pound of dirty, strong-smelling yak butter and a heavy dash of salt. After this was thoroughly churned, it was served in a wooden bowl. Oily globules were floating on top. Anywhere else it would have been a nauseating concoction, both in sight and smell. But here in the rarefied cold of the Himalayas it was like a rich, hot soup. After two full...
According to Correspondent Alex Campbell, a South African Bushman will eat anything from a mouse to an elephant. In the Okovanggo swamps of Bechuanaland in 1951, he sampled a Bushman meal: "They produced an elephant foot, spiced with cloves, nutmeg, salt and pepper, wrapped in wet clay and baked for five hours in a scooped-out anthill. The result was a pleasant, jellylike dish which tasted like baked oyster. While waiting for it to bake we had an hors d'oeuvre which tasted like popcorn-fried flying ants and wild honey...
...begin with, the oil itself was originally formed by bacteria out of organic remains sinking to the bottom of shallow seas. Bacteria still live in oil sands deep underground; many kinds of petroleum and oilfield brine are alive with them. One species lives only on the tops of salt domes, the telltale indicators of oil deposits, 1,500 ft. below the surface...