Word: stench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amoral Republicans are piling advice on vice. The Tammany Tiger is trying to purr like a pussy cat but it seems to have an impolitic foog in its throat which gives it the sound of an angry beast caught at another's carrion. And from what one hears the stench will last long after the scandalous corpse has been cleared from the city streets...
...always, an event important for its social as well as its sporting aspects; along the street outside the Garden were parked expensive foreign cars which had been used, with a crate strapped on the trunk rack, for dog transportation. Inside, in the carpeted rings, amid the overpowering stench of the disinfectants that are used to prevent the epidemics of distemper that so often get started at shows, famed and valuable dogs paraded, were judged, awarded, and clapped...
...salt: within the area of 10 sq. mi. originally purchased was all the salt in that region. The Indians apparently .had done without salt until 1654, when Jesuit Missionary Simon le Moyne discovered that a spring from which the natives would not drink, thinking evil spirits gave it its stench, was a fountain of salt brine. Once salt was the leading product of the Syracuse district. Now no salt is manufactured there, but brine from the deposits is pumped 20 mi. to Solvay Process Co. which uses it in its alkali industry...
...open torches were permitted the miners. Authorities last week guessed the explosion occurred when a coal slide caused sparks, which ignited gas gathered in a pocket. Such explosions in coalmines occur instantaneously. Therefore, and because coalmines are not equipped with compressed-air systems as are metal mines, "stench" warnings as recommended last week by the U S. Bureau of Mines (see p. 62) are not practicable for coalmines...
...fire because warning was not spread quickly enough. At first pleasant odors were used but were not successful. Workmen did not run when they .sniffed violets or roses. But when experimenters released butyl mercaptan which smells like garlic, miners dropped their tools at once, raced for the exit. The stench safety method has been adopted by the American Standards Association which suggests to mine operators how best to conserve their employes' lives. Although the U.S. Bureau of Mines cannot force operators to obey American Standards, most important operators follow their recommendations. Most up-to-date mines in Montana, Arizona, California...