Word: tars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naval stores originally got their name because as long as ships were wooden, pine tar and pitch were chiefly used in calking hulls and in tarring rope. The first Englishmen who went to North Carolina in the 16th Century saw in the Southern pine forests supplies of pitch and lumber which would make English shipbuilders independent of Scandinavia for these necessities. The same timberlands 300 years later were yielding two-thirds of the world's turpentine and rosin, the simplest derivatives of pitch. By 1900 there were 1,500 distilling centres in the South with an annual production...
...possible were in truth not much better than slaves. Shanghaied by a pressgang, crammed into noisome quarters, half-starved on verminous victuals, paid a pittance, rarely allowed shore liberty, liable to a flogging at an officer's whim, condemned to this servitude for years on end, a British tar's lot was not a happy one. "To be flogged was to be tortured. The first stroke laid on by a brawny boatswain's mate, as hard as he could at the full length of his arm, would always jerk an involuntary 'Ugh!' out of even...
Sharpest reversals came to undefeated, untied teams. A record crowd of 46,000 sat chilled in Durham as North Carolina's Tar Heels, odds-on favorites, were throttled 25-10-0 by Duke's already twice-beaten eleven. Smothered 2740-0 was Syracuse by thrice-defeated Colgate. Third leader to be toppled was Marquette, by Pop Warner's deceptive Temple team...
Commissioner Valentine of the New York Police made a fiery speech to his department on Wednesday. "We want to tar the collars and dirty up the fancy shirts of a few of these mugs who hang around the night spots," he explained. "I think a lot of them are going to resist arrest, and there'll be many a black eye in the morning...
...Mississippi last month huge bolts of open-mesh cotton fabric were unrolled, like a mile-long rug, on the new road between Greenville and Scott, under the eyes of 400 engineers, farmers and Federal bureaucrats, including Manager Oscar Johnston of AAA's Cotton Pool. The cotton, fixed by tar. is laid between the clay and gravel base and the asphalt surfacing. It acts as a binder, prevents stretching and cracking. Extra cost of the binder is $750 per mile, which, experiments in other States show, should be returned later by decreased maintenance bills. Cotton men believe that when highway...