Word: washwoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Midland, Dow indirectly serves the washwoman (with caustic soda in soap), the tiremaker (with sulphur chloride used in vulcanizing rubber), the shoe maker (sodium sulphide for tanning), the cleaner (chloroform and carbon tetrachloride), the dyer (synthetic indigo), the rayon maker (acetic anhydride...
...piece of bleached cotton cloth and placed in a jar of hot (160 degrees F.) soapy water with ten ⅜-in. rubber balls. The jar is whirled in a rotating machine for 30 minutes. This procedure rubs the cloth samples as hard as any washing machine or washwoman can ever do. After thorough rinsing in warm (110 degrees F.) water, drying and ironing (at 275 degrees F.), the specimen is compared with the unwashed specimen. If no difference is discernible to the naked eye, and if the piece of white cotton cloth is not stained, the color is fast enough...
...swans on a leash. In Manhattan last week she attended the elaborate party which Publisher Conde Nast gave for Composer George Gershwin after the première of Porgy and Bess. Next night she went home to St. Louis to see her mother who used to be a washwoman...
Chicago No. 1. Day of the Thompson conviction in Peoria, Chicago produced for indictment two remarkable women. One was Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, 42, plain, heavy-jawed washwoman, a four-time widow. The other was her washwoman friend, Mrs. Evelyn Smith, 46, onetime burlesque dancer, prostitute and wife of a Chinese laundryman. Somehow, between them, they had murdered Mrs. Dunkel's son-in-law, a grocer's clerk named Ervin Lang, who after his wife's death last December was planning to remarry. Mrs. Dunkel promptly confessed that she had offered Mrs. Smith $500 for the job, paid...
...late "Madame" Sarah J. Walker, St. Louis Negro washwoman who grew rich from sales of a straightener of kinky hair, built a $250,000 mansion in New York City's socialite suburb Irvington-on-Hudson and furnished it for $350,000. Last week "Madame" Walker's rich heir, Mrs. Lelia Walker Robinson, ordered the furnishings auctioned. Mrs. Mamie Pratt, friend of "Madame's," bought three black pillows for her Harlem undertaking establishment. A gold-leaf piano brought $450, a gold-leaf phonograph $45. Women fought for nicknacks. Total sales...