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...Roosevelt had a few old friends in to dinner. They included members of the "Cuff Links Gang" (who had campaigned with him back in 1920, when he was running for Vice President). He cut his private birthday cake, bearing just 21 candles, tuned in on an hour-long nation-wide broadcast to hear welders sizzling in factories, riveters clattering, presses crunching, a chorus singing Yellow Rose of Texas. Said he into the microphone himself: "In the midst of sorrow, suffering . . . and death . . . the day itself and the evening have brought with them a great reassurance. ... I am very sure that...
Peace proposals have raised rows before, but this one took the cake. It was not so much the proposal itself as the man who made it: proud, devious, embittered John L. Lewis...
...making synthetic rubber; ethylene glycol, which cools the Army's high-speed airplane engines; ammonium picrate, the Navy's chief source of explosives-can be met by a new process which 1) requires no electric power, 2) simultaneously produces another badly needed chemical, salt cake. By electrolysis of chlorides (mostly sodium chloride, common salt) the U.S. now makes about 2,200 tons of liquid chlorine a day. But demand is far outstripping supply: engineers last week estimated that a ton of chlorine goes into making a tank, two tons in the making of a plane (in its plastics...
...long been washing her clothes, hair and teeth with these soapless soaps-e.g., Procter & Gamble's "Dreft," "Drene," etc., and Colgate's similar line, whose unusual chemistry has not been emphasized in their makers' advertising. Chemists are trying to put a soapless detergent into cake form. When they succeed, as they may any day now, its advantages-notably in the vast U.S. hard-water zones-will revolutionize the soap industry...
...farmhouses and in smaller cities where families still live close together, they would all gather under one roof, and grandfather would say grace before the dinner began. Too soon after dinner, there would be snacks of rich brown fruit cake, baked weeks before and set aside to ripen. In the South children would shoot off firecrackers and their elders would drink eggnog...