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...tower laboratory for Johnson's Wax in Racine, Wis. Its 15-story lab is practically all window; all its heating, plumbing and servicing is done through a central mast, from which it is suspended, much like Buckminster Fuller's circular aluminum house (TIME, March 25). It will adjoin the office building Wright designed in 1938, which is held up by columns built like morning-glories. He also built a low-slung modern house for President Herbert F. Johnson Jr., who apparently believes that Wright can do no wrong...
Also moving out of University Hall are the Information and News Offices which go from the basement level to Weld's ground floor, and the Student Employment Office which is to adjoin them. As the Alumni Placement Bureau again commences to function, it will find a place in the remodeled Weld first floor, while the Committee on War Service Credit and Associate Professor Payson S. Wild's newly established Office of the Counsellor for Veterans move there as soon as possible...
...substituted for the Hansgirg cooling gas the magnesium is rendered nonexplosive by an easily removable oily film which forms on the powder grains. The process has been developed at Washington State College and will probably be used in a 12,000-ton plant at Spokane where magnesium deposits adjoin Grand Coulee's cheap power...
...form for easy separation: manganese dioxide. But two new processes developed by the U.S. Bureau of Mines are on the point of making low-grade manganese oxide ore a useful citizen of steel metallurgy. Last week in three new pilot plants at Boulder City, Nev., where oxide ore beds adjoin Boulder Dam's cheap electricity, manganese's first citizenship papers were being signed...
Five years ago, to dissipate the blue funk into which collectivization had thrown the peasantry, each farm worker was granted his own small private piece of land on which he might raise a few cows, pigs, fruit, vegetables. The decree provided that the garden plots must adjoin the owner's cabin. Because in many villages houses are crowded close together, this stipulation could not always be followed, and the private plots in many cases were well away from the village, scattered around the collective fields. The peasants have worked like demons on their tiny pieces of private property...