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...bother about graduating anyway), and went to work in his father's businesses, James Boyd & Brother, and National Fire Protection Co. He decided to think up a few tricks of his own. He concentrated on chemical foams which, when mixed with water, form a thick, snowy blanket of carbon dioxide bubbles, cutting off oxygen and thus smothering fires...
Mabel Fairbanks is no carbon copy of Sonja Henie or Maribel Vinson. But experts rate her superior to most white amateurs and unquestionably the best skater of her race. Shy, timid and coal-black, she tried on her first pair of skates less than four years ago. Within six months she was mastering spirals, sit-down spins and stops -figures that spill many a veteran. A manager took Mabel in tow, dubbed her "The Swanee Snow Bird" because she was born in Florida, booked her at a scattering of Manhattan rinks. She learned how to dance...
...difference between the two great parties on great issues tends to diminish to the vanishing point. That is the secret strength of American society. . . . Our party system is one of Tweedledum and Tweedledee. ... To the exquisite pain of the doctrinaires, the party rising in power is ... a 'carbon copy' of the party it is displacing. . . . And the question is one of men, not of principles...
...book, Hemingway's noval, is not what it was cracked up to be, not for the screen at least. It is, however, so much better than the scenario about commandos which the boys on the outskirts of Los Angeles have been grinding out lately, with a carbon under it for the next commando picture, that it, becomes a shining example of fine celluloid drama...
...vice versa; a simple, harmless process for darkening metals, especially aluminum, so that they will not reflect light; a method of waterproofing vehicles so that engines will not stall when they ford streams; an inexpensive, durable metal for soldiers' dishes; a means of absorbing or eliminating poisonous carbon monoxide (apparently a substantial problem to soldiers .working around motorized equipment and plane hangars); new methods of sabotage for use by "friendly inhabitants within [enemy] occupied areas...