Word: soda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tobacco & Sodas. United Cigar Stores bought considerable stock in Bastian-Blessing Co., from whom it will buy all its soda fountain equipment needed during the next ten years. Bastian-Blessing dividends thus will be a sort of indirect, shuttle profit to United Cigars...
...American Club members he retold how he had helped make eau potable a wide reality in France. It began at Verdun, during the War. Water was polluted; typhoid threatened the troops. He invented an automatic device to pump hypochlorite of soda into the drinking water. Two and a half to five pounds of hypochlorite liberated enough chlorine to kill the germs in one million gallons of water...
...Minnesota, a bulky, dry, economically-minded man, is his friend and together they often talk politics. A lawyer, he got himself appointed legal adviser to the Federal enforcement officials in his Prohibition District. He advised some raids to put an end to the sale of ginger-ale and soda water "setups" in the nightclubs and cafes of St Paul and Minneapolis. Last week the raiders pushed ahead to catch 'leggers in their homes...
...backdrop colorful with the picturesqueness of desert life strides a stalwart, six-foot Sultan, who scorns and rejects Occidental customs, yet is shrewd enough to entertain visiting British statesmen with their favorite brands of whiskey, mineral water, and even "kippers." When the Britons are gone, all residual whiskey & soda & kippers are abandoned on the desert by Ibn Saud, who, with an oath to Allah, bounds saddleward, up and away...
Diabetics who must munch bran rolls, bran biscuits, bran cookies, bran bread, were cheered to learn last week that a fine white cracker has been prepared for their delectation. In appearance like the simple soda cracker, this delicacy is the result of years of patient experimenting by the departments of Physiological Chemistry, of Food and Cookery in Teachers College, Columbia University. The basis of the biscuit is intarvin, a specially constructed fat discovered by Dr. Max Kahn, of the College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1923. Dr. William John Gies of the Department of Biological Chemistry at Teachers College, directed experiments...