Word: vat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anaconda Copper Co.'s glittering display, the crowds milled thickly: an ingot of solid gold! A bottle of platinum filings! Of palladium! In a far corner, a genial little man plunged a gas blow torch into a jug of water. "See, it still burns furiously. And in that vat of molten lead, too. Reason: our patent pumps and tanks mix with ordinary city gas all the air it needs to burn efficiently anywhere." Hard by was a row of bottles with "white fish meal-for cattle," "impure glycerine-pure glycerine," "cod liver oil, certified grade," and other irrelevant mottoes...
...Etienne, France, a wealthy farmer was overcome by the fumes of grapes he was stamping in a huge vat. Two workmen were overcome when they went to aid him. The workmen were revived; but Oriol, the farmer, was dead when lifted from the vat...