Word: powders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused with the last law's cash & carry provision which applied to "nonlethal weapons"-cotton, oil, steel, etc.; this would apply to actual arms). If this should happen Britain and France would be able to count in the event of war on the armament and powder factories of the U. S. as long as they had money with which to buy. They would have enough money for a time. Together, the British and French have about $2,000,000,000 invested in U. S. securities or deposited in U. S. banks...
Cadmium, an element of the zinc family, destroys red blood corpuscles when introduced into the bloodstream (as it might be if rubbed on lips or licked). Selenium, a dark red powder belonging to the sulfur family and found in German, Japanese, Mexican and other soils, is chiefly used for photoelectric cells and ruby-glass danger signals...
...year-old Contralto Kate Smith. For eight successful radio years Kate Smith has used her booming, unschooled voice, plus occasional bursts of hearty Americanism to sell millions of dollars worth of cigars, automobiles, coffee and, since 1937, General Foods cake flour, baking powder and salt. From her paychecks she has tucked away $1,000,000, mostly in Government bonds, but she is still unmarried, lives alone. She has won 15,000,000 weekly listeners, but she can count scarcely a dozen intimate friends...
...tiny, frail glass capsules, a capsule placed inside each lamp, the lamp pumped out and sealed. Then short radio waves are turned on the capsule. It heats up, explodes. The sodium is thus freed inside the lamp and the broken capsule is reduced to a harmless pinch of powder...
PlaceState. Cond. Skiing in. Snow Bartlett, N.H. Fair Good 83 3 new powder Canaan, N.H. Fair Good 20 Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Snowing Good 105 3 new powder Conway, N.H. Fair Good 32 1 new powder Dartmouth Region, N.H. Fair Good 20 Franoonia Netch, N.H. Snowing Good 60 3 new powder Fryeburg, Me. Fair Good 44 Light Greenfield, Mass. Fair Fair 4 Breakable crust Intervale, N.H. Fair Good 33 3 new powder Jackson, N.H. Fair Good 34 2 new powder Lacenia (Gilford) N.H. Fair Good 27 1 new powder Lancaster, N.H. Cloudy Good 28 4 new powder Lincoln, N.H. Fair...