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...decade of lobbying and fighting for power, the two Farm Bureau chiefs and the two Congressmen had never been sitting quite so pretty as they were last week. By preventing the passage of the farm bill, they had tied up the Administration's basic wartime food plan...
Buna-S, conceived long ago, has had a most painful birth. It is produced by uniting, through heat, pressure and catalysts, two chemicals, butadiene (bewta-die'een) (75%) and styrene (25%). Styrene is not a basic problem; Dow Chemical and Monsanto should be adequately big factors in producing it. The bloody salient of the synthetic-rubber battle has been butadiene which, except for synthetic rubber, has so far no other reason for existence. Once the plants are created and producing, the problem again becomes simple; the rubber companies in their existing plants take the combined ("co-polymerized") butadiene-styrene...
...voice kept yelling. Hey, I'm on Dean's List, or did I tell you? No, Mike. Go away. I've graduated from the Adams House telephone booth. . . . Where's Bowser? He said he had something on,--. We know: Basic English . . . I can't write about polities. I don't know anything about politics. What's been happening lately? Singapore just fell? O.K. Give me a typewriter. . . . Hey, fellas, whaddaya know! Hippocrates G. Apostle just got out of Stillman! . . . Well, well,--so Johnnie Robbine is dead . . . Parson Fenn say's he's got a swell idea...
...Basic English . . . No, Mike . . . town-grown . . . Hey! . . . Basic . . . No, Mike . . . gown . . . Hey! . . . No, Mike...
...basic problem was to teach a man the tricks of playing safe when he moved in three dimensions, so that he knew where he was in relation to the earth during each split-second of a maneuver. Flyers often get too cocky in acrobatics, wheel their mounts around at too low an altitude to recover safely if something goes wrong...