Word: limes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British are known as "Lime-Juicers" not "Grape-Juicers...
Since 1920 steelmaking has had a big swing to the open-hearth process. These furnaces, lined with dolomite (lime and magnesia oxide), are primed with plate scrap and limestone, then charged with pig iron, scrap and ore, and heated. Gas expelled from the limestone stirs the mixture, helps form the slag. A furnaceman spoons out samples, cools them to test quality, then adjusts the heat to get just the quality he wants. After about twelve hours the furnace is tapped, the steel ladled off. The Bessemer process is three times faster than the open-hearth, and correspondingly cheaper; but since...
...strapping, golden-blonde Lucille Mahoney, Arnold Constable's designer-buyer. Last week Miss Mahoney completed her most exacting assignment: nine ensembles to be worn during the visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth. They include: an ermine stole made of 250 Alaskan pelts; a chiffon dress in mauve, lime green, petal pink shades; an evening dress of Alenqon lace. Twittered proud Designer Mahoney: "Mrs. Roosevelt is usually very quick about deciding on her clothes, but last time she spent two hours here. She's wonderfully easy to work with, understands tailoring and has impeccable taste...
...plan to extend the program on a national scale, co-operating with the committee on education of the International conference at Lime, Peru, and to cultivate a wider understanding of political, economic and social aspects which the Americas have in common...
Another one, even more pathetic looking had a queer type of reversed gills which extracted oxygen form the water all right, but tasted of using air a national scale, co-operating with the committee on education of the International conference at Lime, Peru, and to cultivate a wider understanding of political, economic and social aspects which the Americas have in common...