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Manganese is used in small amounts by the copper, glass and dry-cell battery industries; but steel uses most of it; about 13 Ib. per ton. Its function in steelmaking is to collect the stray traces of sulfur which all carbon steels contain. The sulfur tends to combine with the iron to make iron sulfide, which collects in films among the crystals of hardening steel, prevents cohesion, makes it brittle, so that it cannot be forged and rolled. Manganese takes the sulfur away from the iron and the manganous sulfide which is formed collects in small globules throughout the metal...
Living quarters in Weld were, in one instance, compared to a monk's cell; lest the prospective occupants of that hall be discouraged, let it be said that a few colorful additions to a room in the way of furniture, will do wonders for even the most ascetic monk
Richard Hottelet, arrested March 15 by Berlin Gestapo agents on charges of spying for an "enemy power," was tossed into a tiny, grim cell in Alexanderplatz prison, deprived of even his eyeglasses "to prevent suicide," left strictly alone for three days-"the hardest and longest I ever spent." Thereafter grilled relentlessly, he was threatened but never tortured with "the brutal methods of the American police." Fed black bread, ersatz coffee, sour gruel and margarine, he was refused books and newspapers, exercised in goose step half an hour a week, received one bath in seven weeks. Shortly before his transfer...
Some of them had seen "the Duchess" when she entered San Quentin, a fox-faced, shabby murderess, bound for death in a gas chamber. Through the cell blocks the grapevine carried her story: that she (Juanita Spinelli), her common-law husband, Mike Simeone, and Thug Gordon Hawkins had drugged and drowned a gangster. Later another bulletin: a 30-day reprieve for the three by Governor Culbert Olson. Later still: "She's going to sniff it [lethal gas] just the same...
...chlorinator which prevents public water supplies from being needlessly chlorine-smelly. After initial chlorine treatment has killed organic matter in the water, a sensitive cell measures the residual chlorine by the amount of electric current which will pass through the water. Further chlorine is then automatically added only as needed to protect the water on its way to the ultimate faucet, instead of according to the volume of water, as at present. Now used at New Haven, Conn., the new chlorinators will soon be installed in New York and other U.S. cities...