Word: tars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 600,000 members, the U. M. W. is the biggest union in the land. It has organized 95% of the coal industry and branched out through by-products and coal-tar derivatives into the chemical industry and even into perfume and cosmetics. It has $2,500,000 in its treasury -after contributing $500,000 to the National Democratic Committee in 1936, spending $550,000 on elegant new quarters in Washington and lending $2,000,000 to the C. I. O. and its various affiliates. Its vice president is Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, its secretary...
...writing an indictment of the ideas of opponents of the New Deal which was calculated to delight all those who already agreed with him and titillate to the point of apoplexy all those who did not. His formula was simple: to turn popular economic beliefs upside down and apply tar with a brush so broad as to hide the occasions when he begged the question and otherwise offended logic...
...Tsar Nicholas II, a brick & sandstone Cathedral of St. Nicholas, archiepiscopal seat of the Russian Orthodox Church on the North American continent. Recently, many a passerby in the street gazed upward at the Cathedral's steeply-pitched roof. There, perched on a ladder, a stocky young man wielded tar buckets, rolls of tar paper. He was Very Rev. Michael Maslov, dean of the Cathedral. For months, rain had been leaking through the roof, damaging the murals and icons within. Prelates of the Cathedral had launched a campaign for $25,000 to refurbish it, but little money was forthcoming from...
...aluminum holder with a filter of activated alumina, an absorbent much used in chemistry. This proved too expensive, but in the experiments Aluminum Co. Chemist R. B. Derr noticed that butts of the cigarets in contact with aluminum were always soggy and black with absorbed nicotine and tar. This was because tobacco is itself one of the best possible nicotine absorbers and because aluminum's sensitivity to temperature makes it condense the fumes quickly. Chemist Derr tried using an ordinary cigaret as a filter. He found that smoking one cigaret through another as filter eliminated 70% of the nicotine...
...from growers with the proceeds of a $2.40 per bag export tax on coffee.* Familiar sights in Brazil ever since have been huge grey-green piles of coffee beans smouldering slowly away under great smoke plumes, barges lumbering out to sea to dump coffee overboard, workmen mixing coffee and tar into briquets for building. Since 1931 these activities have destroyed 52,547,493 bags of coffee (almost 7,000,000,000 lb.), worth at last week's price of 9⅛per lb. some $638,750,000, and sufficient to supply every man, woman and child...