Word: salts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their hard-headed business minded spouses to take an interest in the arts. Now their bread has come back cake. This Woman Business is the cake. It may be baked too brown, it may even need its hair sugared. Perliaps it needs to be taken with a grain of salt as well; but Boston ate it with relish and cried 'More...
Foiled, mob-leaders plotted an attack next day on a train scheduled to arrive salt-laden at Cuenca from Ecuador's chief port, Guayaquil. Having heaped large stones and timbers upon the railway track, they foolishly sought to make assurance doubly sure by cutting the telegraph wires. At Guayaquil, the authorities, warned by telegraph trouble that something was amiss, placed armed guards upon the salt train which easily scattered the attacking peasantry...
...Salt taxation has been since the earliest times a favorite method of governmental enrichment. Ancient Rome set the World its first example of a government farsighted enough to attempt to decrease the price of salt to its citizens. At first, each Roman legionary received a daily allowance of salt; later this was paid in "money to buy salt" (salarium), from which the modern word "salary" is derived...
...sharp November night thinned out into a grey November dawn over rocky Utah. The broad reaches of Great Salt Lake caught up pale sunrise colors. On desolate Antelope Island in the Southeastern corner of the lake the buffalo* herd slowly bestirred itself to test the morning air. Like shaggy brown mounds they looked in the dim light, lurching up lazily from sleep: here three cows and their calves in a grassy pocket gulch; here, in the broader valley, a scattered group of yearlings and dry cows; there, proudly alone, a burly young bull; there, ponderous and patriarchal, respectfully attended...
Mark Morton, Chicago magnate (salt, sugar): "Like President John T. Dorrance of Campbell soups (TIME, Nov. 8), I too have a daughter, Jane, who enjoys business. When she completed her school courses at Miss Chamberlain's in Boston, she went to selling motor cars for a living. She proved so excellent a saleswoman that last week the Stutz Chicago factory branch put her in their customs body department, where she will possibly earn $50,000 yearly. She also operates an antique shop; loves horses, sports...