Word: soft
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last year some 12,000 companies employing 120,000 persons, filled 120,000,000,000 bottles with soft drinks and sold them for $650,000,000. The greatest single company in the field of carbonated beverages is Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., although it accounts for only a small percentage of the total U. S. ginger ale output. Dominant in carbonated water is White Rock Mineral Springs Co., with over 90% of the output. Last week Canada Dry officials admitted there have been conversations looking toward a merger with White Rock. On the New York Stock Exchange the shares...
...Spanish. The importation of Negroes continued and only a few Frenchmen settled on plantations in the country or built mansions for themselves in the towns. Theirs was a gay life; social affairs were elaborate and highly organized; beautiful women minuetted with white-wigged planters or, drawn by the soft air and the bright moon, flirted on the cool terraces...
Fifty years ago the grey little city of Paisley, seven miles outside of Glasgow, was world famed because beauties who could not afford real Cashmere shawls draped their drooping shoulders with "Paisley shawls" of soft wool, printed by Scots with Indian designs. Ladies no longer wear shawls. Paisley's Calvinist spinners make a modest living today spinning cotton thread...
...recent murders. The girl-perhaps the detective would choose to describe Maria Hahn- the girl was returning home at dusk when she was seized upon and subjected to such-and-such cruelty, slashed in such-and-such a way, murdered thus-and-so, finally buried in soft clay soil near a farmhouse...
Micro-Sticks & Stones. A graphic phrase, "micro-sticks and micro-stones," the U. S. Weather Bureau's William Jackson Humphreys coined to emphasize how technically impure is the air man breathes. Always in the atmosphere are bits of rock, vegetable fibre, litter, salt (over oceans), sulphuric acid (from soft coal chimneys and volcanoes), nitric acid (from lightning), meteoritic ash. The bronchial tubes get rid of most of such debris with almost no harm to the body...