Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From Salt to Zippers. The huge expansion program, to be financed by the biggest industrial bond and stock issue in British history, was typical of I.C.I. The company has been booming from the day it was born in 1926, until now it controls a network of plants and sales offices in 19 countries around the world (more than 100 plants, 110,000 workers in Britain alone), makes 12,000 products from table salt to fertilizer and bulletproof gas tanks. In 1952 the company's gross sales hit $774 million, its gross profits more than $100 million. The tally...
Quotes for Salt. Faced with Molotov's icy rigidity, the Western ministers replied with polite but telling effect. To Molotov's monotonous charges that the West is conspiring to start a new world war, John Foster Dulles pointed...
...Teddy bears embroidered on her panties, but neither he nor anyone else at the time saw reason to question the official verdict: "Death by accidental drowning." Wilma, the police reasoned, had gone to Ostia in the gloomy April off-season to bathe her eczema-infected foot in salt water; she had then been caught in a treacherous undertow and carried beyond her depth. Her family buried her-a service with banks of flowers, the clop-clop of horses pulling the black hearse, the family following on foot, weeping. Then her death was forgotten by all but family and friends...
ANGUS K. WILSON, M.D. Salt Lake City
...Nicaragua now has more than 600 miles of all-weather public roads, compared with twelve miles in the '30s. Along a 40-mile stretch of the new road from Managua to Tamarindo, there is not a single town, village or house-but the road ends at a valuable salt flat where Tacho plans to process enough salt for the whole country. His diversified interests have helped transform Nicaragua from a one-crop (coffee) country into an exporter of rice, sesame, cotton, sugar, corn, cattle and lumber. His operations in cotton raising and ginning, sugar-milling, icemaking, distilling, textiles, lumber...