Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon thereafter the name was changed to ascorbic acid and identified with Vitamin C. After long search for raw material from which the vitamin could be mined in quantity, Szent-Gyorgyi turned to the paprika beds near his home in Hungary and in one day obtained a half-pound of his acid. In March last year, Professor Walter Norman Haworth of Birmingham. England determined the vitamin's constitution, and in August he, and Swiss chemists in Zurich. independently synthesized Vitamin C from a ketonaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. Now the pure substance is produced as colorless crystals in Swiss and British...
...blast and open-hearth furnaces, blooming mills and bar mills but it has never rolled finished steel. When the expansion program is completed, the company will have an annual capacity of 900,000 tons?enough, said Mr. Ford, to build 3,000 cars per day without buying a pound of steel off the premises...
...arrived with truckloads of protests against a quip broadcast from Leamington by Comedian Ernie Moss. Referring to the world's largest underwater tunnel, lately opened by His Majesty (TIME, July 30), shrill Mr. Moss chirped: "I was to have opened the Mersey Tunnel but the King charged a pound less, so I didn...
...others. One of Mr. Doane's coworkers on the survey promptly pointed out that even in 1929 46,000,000 U. S. citizens had incomes of less than $426. hence could not be expected to buy two suits of clothes a year, an egg for breakfast, half a pound of meat and a pint and a half of milk every...
...London. Last week came another omen of British recovery as hawk-nosed, stoop-shouldered Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain loosened the Empire's money bags a trifle and dangled the prospect of loans before countries which have hooked their currencies to Sterling. When he took the pound off gold, Chancellor Chamberlain slapped a precautionary embargo on loaning British money overseas. Technically this embargo still blocks even British loans to the Dominions, but Mr. Chamberlain has leniently winked at several issues of that sort. His real aim is to make Sterling the standard trading medium of the world...