Word: sedimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Butter & Egg Man. Well might the old banker, who had begun his career as a butter & egg merchant in the Balkans, smile in the topiary trimness of his beard. What tides of political refugees had swept through Europe since the beginning of this century! Each had left its human sediment or drift in Switzerland. The Count was sharing the sanctuary from which Lenin and his fellow fugitives had conspired to overthrow the Russian empire. Later the fugitives from Lenin, the White Russians, had sought a haven of safety. In little more than a decade many who had laughed...
Little children should not believe all the long-accepted scientific "facts" that they are taught-hypotheses such as that coal was formed by subterranean heat and pressure when the flooded, lush, swampy forests were buried deep under crushing layers of sediment (which also turned to rock). This particular idea just isn't so, claims Fuel Technologist Walter Maxmilian Fuchs of Pennsylvania State College. The first step had to be taken by bacteria, for except near volcanoes there was never enough heat and pressure on the carboniferous vegetation to transform plants into coal...
...very bottom of the barrel lies their least liquid sediment: some $850,000,000 (book value) of "investments in controlled enterprises," the unlisted securities of privately owned corporations. Such companies include giants like rayon-making American Viscose, British-American Tobacco's Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (Kool, Raleigh). They also include many smaller fry: British Ropes, Ltd., J. & J. Cash, Inc. (woven names), Crosse & Blackwell (jam, etc.), Jaeger Co. (knit goods), Oxford University Press, Yardley & Co. (cosmetics), many another. Not listed on U. S. exchanges, stock in such companies is "unseasoned," would probably find an uncertain market...