Word: syrups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many years Refined Syrups lost money. Its chief problem lay in the heavy duty of $40 a ton on the sugar-syrup which it imported from Cuba. Consultants Johnston and Cutting were called in. They found that if the solution were 48% sugar instead of 68% the duty would be 83^ a ton. But this solution would ferment within ten days. Hence they suggested that syrup ships halt at the three-mile limit while the syrup was being mixed with water to reduce its sugar content. They charged that the company had promised to let them patent the idea...
Efforts have recently been made to emulate Vermont in maple-syrup production, now far below its possibilities...
...that corn sugar may be used in foods without declaring it on the label. Corn Products Refining makes 400,000 Ib. of corn sugar per day, now plans to double its capacity, build a million-dollar plant. The company's trademarked products include: Argo starch; Mazola oil; Karo syrup; Linit starch; Cerelose white sugar; Kremel pudding powder...
Anyone may guess what happens when the acid of Mr. Babbitt's mind meets the syrup of romanticism. In the history of the romantic movement in the nineteenth century there is plenty of the emotional overtone which grates so harshly on Mr. Babbitt's ear. He goes after it with all his guns. His methods are simple. Beginning with Jean Jacques Rousseau, his arch-enemy, who he appears to believe is responsible for everything that has happened in the last century except the breaking of the halyard on Shamrock V, he makes all the romanticists ridiculous. This is very easy...
...charge that the power company conspired to have an employe work for the bus lines, that this person "maliciously fomented trouble among the plaintiff's employes, placed quantities of carborundum dust and emery dust in the motors of various busses of the plaintiffs and put baking syrup in the oil pans, let air out of the tires of busses, placed tacks and nails in specially prepared molds at bus stops, all for the purpose of destroying plaintiff's equipment, interfering with their business, and discouraging plaintiffs so as to force them to sell their said competing business...