Word: powdered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noise. Trains, buses, autos and old-style ox wagons poured 250,000 South Africans onto the scene. A city of 5,000 tents had been built to shelter part of the crowd. Many were dressed in Voortrekker garb-the men in cowhide or corduroys, with feathered slouch hats, powder horns, and bushy beards which they had carefully grown during the past year; the women in flowing dresses and tight kappies (sunbonnets...
Franconia Notch, New Hampshire: The lower open slope has 12 inches of packed powder snow. No skiing will be permitted on the trails but the rope tow will operate today and tomorrow...
Pico Peak, Rutland, Vermont: Eight inches of settled powder reported on the lower B slope. Rope tow and T-bar will run this weekend. Skiing fair...
Franklin had worked his way through Cornell by repairing farm machinery and playing professional baseball (for Toledo, where his batting average of .402 made him the American Association's best hitter in 1885). Settling in East Alton, Franklin began making and selling black powder to Illinois coal mines. World War I boomed his tidy company into big business, and that was when John started his training...
...Since 1908, Du Pont and Olin have each owned 49% of the Equitable Powder Manufacturing Co., which in turn controls three small subsidiaries which make blasting powder and dynamite...