Word: powders
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Instead of the usual powder flashlights, the cameramen used the new electric flashlamp that leaves no smoke, makes no bang. After the President . had been "shot" signing the bills, he inspected the lamp. "That's a new one," he said...
Fleischmann Yeast Co., Royal Baking Powder and E. W. Gillett, Ltd. (Standard Brands, Inc.), August...
...this fire ignited some excelsior which had been left carelessly under a box car on a siding less than 100 feet from the watchmen's shanty. The freight car was loaded with small shells which exploded and set fire to other cars. Finally a car loaded with black powder in the very centre of the yard exploded and after that everything went...
...Thomas Coleman du Pont, 66, famed Delaware industrialist-financier; of a throat affliction; in Wilmington. Born in Louisville, Ky. of a branch of the family that had moved there from Delaware (his father, Antoine Bidermann, his uncle Alfred Victor du Pont left because "there wasn't room in the powder business at the time for all the family"), he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was an able athlete (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ib. at the age of 19). Beginning as a miner in Kentucky, he rose to be president and manager of several coal, iron & steel...
Planes are flung into the air from battleships and cruisers by catapults. Originally all these were operated by compressed air. Then it was found that a charge of black powder (a slow explosive), would launch the plane with a more gradual thrust, less of a jerk. But the powder blast sometimes causes accidents, once blew a seaman overboard, makes as much noise as a 5-inch gun. Last week the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics ordered a newly designed "blast reducer" for all explosion-catapults. Built somewhat like an automobile muffler ?a cylindrical chamber perforated with many small holes?...