Muriatic acid is a common name for the chemical hydrochloric acid. This compound has numerous industrial and domestic uses, ranging from food, metals and polymer processing to swimming pool water disinfection.
The brand Little Debbie is better known than the company itself. Debbie is the granddaughter of founders O.D. and Ruth McKee, and daughter of Ellsworth McKee, the current chairman of the board and chief administrative officer.
Bessie Smith was a rough, crude, violent woman. She was also the greatest of the classic Blues singers of the 1920s. Bessie started out as a street musician in Chattanooga. In 1912 Bessie joined a traveling show as a dancer and singer. The show featured Pa and Ma Rainey, and Smith developed a friendship with Ma. Ma Rainey was Bessie's mentor and she stayed with her show until 1915. Bessie then joined the T.O.B.A. vaudeville circuit and gradually built up her own following in the south and along the eastern seaboard. By the early 1920s she was one of the most popular Blues singers in vaudeville.