American engineers power wartime explosives breakthrough
Garret Smith recounts how American authorities and entrepreneur Sherman Washburn harnessed cyanamid to produce ammonium nitrate for fertilizer and explosives. The Air Nitrate Corporation built Muscle Shoals plant, delivering 13 percent of allied high explosives for the anticipated 1919 spring drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ordnance Department
United States Army
America
Germany
Kualsey
Crank Sherman Washburn
Cornell
South America
Chile
Central America
Panama Canal
United States
South
Appalachian
Europe
Weg Uknaariad
Lcs
Ann Dunt
Mr. Washburn
United
Air Nitrate Corporation
Westinghouse Church Kerr Company
J. G. White Corporation
Chemical Construction Company
M. W. Kellogg Company
Alabama
Tenessee
Muscle Shoals
Wyoming and West Spur a Shared Spirit of Growth
The article recounts Charles A. Selden’s Cheyenne visit and notes Wyoming and the broader West as a resilient, hopeful bloc. It highlights oil income funding public schools, rural-urban cooperation, growing manufacturing aims, and a steady influx of settlers drawn to homesteading, cattle, and mining as the region builds a self-reliant economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Selden
Paris
New York Times
American West
the Times
Cheyenne
Selden
Wyoming
Utah
Montana
Butte
Idaho
Colorado
Poca
Tello
New York
New England
Pilgrims
Sons of Pilgrims
Pioneers
Sons of Pioneers
Red
Harvard
Vassar
Yale
Nantucket
New Bedford
New London
Arctic
Pacific
Indian Oceans
Congress
Gasper
Casper
Denver
Billings
Mont
Washington
California
Ilinois
Indiana
Iowa
Nebraska
Atlantic
United States
Katherine Morton
West
Morton
Masachusetts Ormal
Wyomain
Rocky Mountain
Walls
North Dakota
Marriage Licenses Issued to Samuelson Casteel and Brassell Pancake
Samuelson Casteel and Orpha Minerva Casteel of Cheyenne received marriage licenses along with Dean K. Brassell of Cheyenne and Lottie A. Pancake of Shir on Springs Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest B. Samuelson
Orpha Minerva Casteel
Cheyenne
Dean KE. Brassell
Lottie A. Pancake
Shiron Springs
Kans
Pawnbroker and vagrants fined in police court
Abe Schreibman was fined 350 by Judge C A Swainson for running an unlicensed pawn shop. J P Farrell and CG C Rounds each paid 30 and received 30 day jail terms for vagrancy. Farrell was found with an expensive revolver and a high power rifle. Roy Austing missed his court appearance and forfeited a 25 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abe Schreibman
C. A. Swainson
J. P. Farrell
CG. C. Rounds
Farrell
Roy Austing
Also Mentioned on This Page
Garret Smith
New York City
Straits of Magellan
Washburn
Big West
New Englands
Plains
Texas
Kendrick
League
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