Word: productively
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...salt in that region. The Indians apparently .had done without salt until 1654, when Jesuit Missionary Simon le Moyne discovered that a spring from which the natives would not drink, thinking evil spirits gave it its stench, was a fountain of salt brine. Once salt was the leading product of the Syracuse district. Now no salt is manufactured there, but brine from the deposits is pumped 20 mi. to Solvay Process Co. which uses it in its alkali industry...
...recent paragraph titled "Cheap Light" (TIME, Dec. 1) you, unwittingly of course, committed an injustice against our product: Lyter-life-a synthetic, emulsified fuel for lighters. You assert, apropos of a German-made product, that similar fuels "have not been wholly successful in the U. S." This statement is, however, definitely belied by our ascending sales curve on Lyterlife...
Unlike the German product, Lyterlife is non-liquid in the tube and remains non-liquid even after being fed into the lighter which is accomplished via the "force-feed" system. This forced feeding thoroughly impregnates the cotton in the fuel chamber of the lighter, minimizes evaporation, and yet permits Lyterlife to feed into the wick as readily as a liquid...
...past three years Treasury Department chemists-whose duty it was to denature tax-free industrial alcohol long before Prohibition-have been busy seeking a substitute for wood alcohol. Alco-tate, discovered by no one man, is a by-product of cracked California petroleum. Its formula is a Treasury secret. But Director Doran is confident that it can not be precipitated from or distilled out of grain alcohol. About Jan. 1 it will go into...
...training was essential, went to University of Bingen, Germany. In 1902 he returned to the U. S., started work in Mesta's designing room. Mesta, located in West Homestead, Pa., is a leader in making the big equipment used by steel mills, employs 2,000 men. A notable product was a 14,000-ton press for the U. S. armor plant in South Charleston. A pressure of 14,000 tons is equivalent to the weight of 70 freight locomotives. Other notable products are the tremendous machine tools Mesta makes for its own use. Mesta's net sales last...