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Meanwhile steel-pipe makers have been whistling through their fingers. Steel is iron mixed with and hardened by carbon. Because it is easier to produce steel than to rid iron of its impurities, steel is cheaper than pure iron. It is also cheaper than-iron or steel alloys, and than copper alloys. But it oxidizes (rusts) many times faster than do those other materials...
...College kneaded flour, water, yeast and a secret brown powder into dough, he had a loaf of bread baked and ready for eating. Housewives require ten hours for bread making; commercial bakers take two hours. Professor Dedrick's 45-minute powder is a vesiculant, exciting the formation of carbon dioxide, as does yeast alone, baking powders and the mixture of hydrochloric acid and baking soda. He derives his powder from wheat grains. Shortly he will offer it to the baking trade...
United Carbide & Carbon Corp...
When Charles Edwin Mitchell, head of Manhattan's National City Bank, was a young man he copied orders for the Western Electric Co. Making several carbon copies legible through the medium of a stub pen required a firm, indeed a strong, hand. Strong-handed, Banker Mitchell is also strongwilled. Last week he halted a collapse on the Stock Market, "slapped the Federal Reserve Board squarely in the face," heard Virginia's Senator Glass demand his resignation from the directorate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, announced the absorption of Farmers' Loan & Trust...
...road tar is a morsel which children like to chew. Tar contains dirt, of course, and poisons with terrific names like creosote, benzene, cyclohexane, anthracene, dianthracene, toluene, pyridine, amylene, methyl cyanide, carbon bisulphide. Tar-chewing children should be warned by the disaster which overtook a man tarring an Ohio road. As a case of industrial toxicology, the American Medical Association considered it important enough to publish in its Journal...