Word: solvent
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Willkie set forth five points to which the administration ought to adhere if we are to have a "sound and solvent" financial history, instead of the inflation which he sees impending...
Meanwhile, a few solvent roads, spurred by examples like Erie and New Haven, made progress in voluntary debt-reduction programs of their own. Great Northern, which has cut its fixed charges by $5,200,000 since 1934, dickered last week for a $20,000,000 RFC loan to help it meet a $28,132,000 July i maturity, planned to retire the other $8,132,000 itself. New York Central, which had a narrow squeeze in Depression I, still barely covers fixed charges, has hacked manfully at them since 1932. Fortnight ago, facing $20,000,000 in bank loans...
...Viscose plant felt no ill effects from the gas, and some were only mildly sick. But, according to the Pennsylvania survey of 120 "men on the job . . . only five per cent of the persons examined . . . were found to be completely free from pathological signs and symptoms." So strong a solvent is C52 that its fumes, inhaled, destroy the fatty sheaths of nerves, soften the fat matter of the brain. For some people, even a whiff is enough to produce a difficulty in walking. First symptom of poisoning, said Drs. Trumper & Gordy, is a kind of drunkenness, a "C52 jag." Then...
Toward the close of World War I big Eastman Kodak Co. got scared. Low and uncertain were its supplies of methanol (wood alcohol), indispensable solvent of the cellulose nitrate from which photographic film was made. When peace came, Eastman set about making its wood alcohol supply secure. In doing so, it unwittingly became a pioneer in the infant field of U. S. plastics...