Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valley of a great and ancient river lie the cities of Cairo, Delta, Thebes, Karnak. They are prosperous and flourishing communities. Their inhabitants move briskly about in Fords, listen in on radio concerts, attend movies, use electric refrigerators and high-grade plumbing, eat trademarked breakfast foods. The river is not the Nile, but the Mississippi. The district is "Little Egypt," sunny farming district in southwest Illinois. "Little Egypt," as such, got national publicity last fortnight when Editor Allen T. Spivey of the East St. Louis (Ill.) Daily Journal, loaded his Congressional ambitions and campaign speeches into an airplane labelled...
...been said, this assumption was temporarily justified. So high a price, however, encouraged rival Dutch producers to extend their plantations. Moreover U. S. rubber manufacturers, urged by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, proceeded to circumvent partially the artificially high price of new rubber by turning to the use of reclaimed rubber and other substitutes. As a result the scarcity artificially created by Great Britain has progressively ceased to exist and the price of rubber has accordingly and progressively fallen...
...President Francis R. Henderson of the New York Rubber Exchange: "Baldwin has made a bold move. But in my opinion he has made a move that will, in the long run, be a good thing for the industry as a whole. Lower prices for rubber will encourage its increased use, and increasing consumption will take care of the entire output of the Far East...
...well as of height and breadth. Colored cinemas are already being shown regularly. But they are painful to watch; the colors, notably the reds, do not blend properly. Pictures giving the illusion of three dimensions have also been cast and screened. To behold them, spectators have been obliged to use special and cumbersome opera-glasses. Nonetheless, these are stages on the way to perfect photography, and it may well be that upon his next trip George Eastman, to whom scientists owe as much thanks as he to them, will carry equipment that will record his exploits in three-dimensional...
...Amalgam-an alloy of mercury with another metal or metals. Mercury is the only metal which is liquid at ordinary temperatures and its alloys are pliable substances ranging from liquid to solid according to the amount of mercury used. They are mechanically convenient for use in dentistry...