Word: salts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here artificial fertilizers must be brought on in the form of some soluble salt of potassium, soluble so that the plant may absorb it through its roots...
...been an unsuspected leper but at the same time told of having joined in personally on a Shinto ceremony in Japan, where he thrice walked across a bed of blazing coals, to the great detriment of his clothes but without injury to his bare feet which were rubbed with salt...
...main stem of the Western Pacific runs 927 miles from San Francisco to Salt Lake City.* It was once, financially, a hazardous railroad, an iron hope of the executors of the estate of Jay Gould for making a coast to coast system out of the Gould holdings. In the rocky country past Ogden, Utah, the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific dominated; if the Goulds wanted a new road they would have to build one over the mountains. The plan cost money-so much that the Gould roads collapsed and passed into the control of the Equitable Trust Co. Alvin...
...ostensible purpose of these concessions was to give to the British exclusive control of practically all future development of mineral rights in Panama, excepting oil, coal, salt and mineral waters...
...State Department promptly made public the text of the contract granting the concessions. This gave a British company formed for the purpose a right to explore for ten years all public lands, in certain areas, and the right to perpetual ownership of any gold mines or other mines (excepting salt, oil, coal and miner 1 water) discovered during that period. The company is made a "public utility," hence freed from all taxes; Panama is to provide sanitary and police protection at the company's expense (much of the area has never even been explored); the company has permission...