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...Carbon dioxide is an innocuous gas; water charged with it squirts from soda-fountain nozzles to make the fizz in sodas...
...able to manufacture jewels, urged them to have a try at it. For the Nazis had overrun Holland and France, bottled up Switzerland -the countries whence the U.S. formerly imported nearly all its synthetic jewels (as many as 100,000,000 a year). Only one company, Union Carbide & Carbon, volunteered to make synthetics. It alone produced the great volumes of hydrogen and oxygen which are essential in making them...
...Cleveland, metallurgists of Union Carbide & Carbon—biggest U.S. maker of ferrochrome, vital ingredient of stainless steel (usual formula: 18% chromium, 8% nickel)—announced that at last the behavior and strength of stainless steel under aerial conditions can be predicted with scientific exactitude...
...Stainless steel can be fabricated faster and cheaper because, unlike aluminum, it can easily be spot-welded. A thousand steel spot welds cost less than 10?. A like number of aluminum rivets may cost $30.* And Union Carbide & Carbon's engineers estimated last week that stainless-steel wings can sometimes be built four times as fast as aluminum wings...
With these attributes. Cagney manages to suggest George M. Cohan without carbon-copying the classic trouper. He has the Cohan trick of nodding and winking to express approval, the outthrust jaw, stiff-legged stride, bantam dance routines, side-of-the-mouth singing, the air of likable conceit. For the rest, he remains plain Jimmy Cagney. It is a remarkable performance, possibly Cagney's best, and it makes Yankee Doodle a dandy...