Word: vinegars
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...makes nearly all the compressed yeast sold in the U. S. Its eleven factories have a capacity of some 500.000 lbs. of yeast per day. In 1928, net sales were $64,004,366; net income $19,820,668. Fleischmann Co. is also one of the world's largest vinegar producers. ships in its own tank cars 15,000,000 gals. of vinegar per annum. The company has consistently promoted Baker's Bread v. Home Made Bread; cheerfully notes that in 1919, 60% of U. S. bread was sold by bakers, in 1928 the baker's share had risen...
...alcohol is usually derived from sugar-cane molasses, cheap and easily fermentable. Uses. During 1928 (fiscal year ending June 30) the U. S. produced 92,418,025 wine gallons of industrial alcohol. Alcohol is used in making artificial silks, hair tonics, tooth pastes, liniments & lotions, ether, perfume, vinegar, tobacco, photographic supplies. Makers of soaps, shellacs, varnishes, polishes and lacquers are alcohol-users, so are makers of fungicides, insecticides, deodorants and disinfectants. When alcohol in eau de Cologne is applied to an aching head, the alcohol evaporates rapidly, uses up the heat of the body and cools the fevered brow. When...
...with them paraded in cutaways and silk toppers. Then, neck and hands in stocks, he was led before the judges (his parents) and made to kiss the Royal Baby (a thuglike gob clutching a gallon bottle of milk and an electrified wand). A royal bootlegger administered a stoup of vinegar & pepper from a whiskey bottle. Then Son Allan was lathered with lampblack, shaved with a wooden razor, dumped into a tank of water and beaten down a gauntlet with cotton clubs...
...their poles remains flat and smooth. Imitation pearls are built around this hollow core, which therefore is considerably larger and has perceptible lips. Other proofs of true pearls: they are not easily frangible (imitations are only wax-filled glass balls); being organic, they are dulled and ultimately dissolved in vinegar's mild acetic acid (imitations dull but do not dissolve...
...Other inseparables: vinegar and oil, Damon and Pythias, warp and woof, odds and ends, pen and ink, man and wife, flotsam and jetsam, hook and crook, cup and saucer, might and main, sixes and sevens, beer and skittles, bread and butter, jot and tittle, flora and fauna, sweetness and light...