Word: stench
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...dirty, malodorous flatlands of East Akron, where rubber workers live amid a pervading stench from the vats, there is widespread conviction that unionists who first perfected the U. S. sit-down technique cannot get much without fighting for it. On the heights of West Akron, where rubber executives live amid a stench diminished but not conquered by distance and altitude, there is an equally firm conviction that the flatland hordes will some day swarm up the hills, looting and shooting as they come. Last week Akron had a taste of trouble...
...campaign. Cried the irrepressible mayor: "I'm going to take all the oil out of Pew. There isn't anything to take out of Cooke. . . . Why, every time 'Jumping Jay' Cooke hands out a statement prepared by the high-priced utilities' publicity department, the stench of crude oil causes the public to say 'phew,' sometimes pronounced...
...spread out in a bell-shaped bloom. The bell was greenish yellow outside, warm maroon inside. At full bloom the circumference of the bell's lip was 12 ft. 10 in. By this time the plant had begun in earnest to emit its characteristic odor-a sickening carrion stench...
...pickling process involving chromic and acetic acid, alcohol, xylol and melted paraffin. The pickled pieces will be sliced .005 millimetres thin with a microtome, stained for study under the microscope. One thing the scientists especially hope to learn is the mechanism of Amorphophallus titamim's titanic stench...
...same persistence was demonstrated in price cuttings. In the end, of course, Standard Oil became such a stench in the public's nostrils that it was ordered dissolved into its 34 component parts in 1911, about 15 years after Mr. Rockefeller retired from active direction at 57, his health broken, his nerves shattered, his skull entirely bald. Even if Standard Oil had not felt the ax of the trustbusters, the near-monopoly would probably have been curbed in time by the independent oil companies, then riding to power on the automobile. For the vast fortune with which Mr. Rockefeller...