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...fire first broke out in the bakery. Before firemen could chop down the door, it was licking up through the gleaming white superstructure. Other blazes had mysteriously broken out from her cutwater to her overhanging stern. While wharf crews took off her cargo, including ten U. S. warplanes not yet unloaded; fireboats poured tons of water into her blazing bowels, rigged webs of cables to keep her upright at the pier. Toward morning, with her red-hot sides sending out great clouds of steam, the Paris crankily listed to port, snapped the cables like twine, heeled over on her side...
...into lactic and acetic acids, which inhibit bacterial action, keep the fodder from rotting. Untreated hay, wet or not, rots in a silo because it is so low in carbohydrate content that the alkaline products of fermentation overcome the effect of the acids. Monsanto's technique is to chop up the hay, blow it into a silo and blow "Phosilage" in with it. "Phosilage," which is 75% phosphoric acid, neutralizes the alkalinity, allows the natural acids to do their preservative work.* Moreover, according to Monsanto, its phosphorus content promotes healthy bones in cattle...
...reaction of the spectators indicates that we are all still more or less barbarians and cannibals. Some onlookers are genuinely dumfounded at the mass mayhem they are seeing, but the majority enjoy themselves mightily, exhorting the contestants to "chop that goalie into little pieces," "rip off his leg if he tries that again," "give him a good one right between the eyes...
...That chop was the beginning, perhaps, of an Economy Congress. Or perhaps it was the fall of a fresh, young, oat-feeling Congress into the trap of a master politician. Franklin Roosevelt certainly did not worry unduly, knowing that in this era of a Permanently Unbalanced Budget, Congress would have a hard time taking his dare to economize generally-on pensions, Social Security, national defense...
...Albert County, 67, may well hold more directorships (121) than any other U. S. businessman, is famed for his judgment of the capital market-he invariably picks the right moment to float bond issues. Last week, after 48 years with the Pennsylvania, he gave up railroading, planned henceforth to chop trees and roam the woods near his Christmas Cove, Me. home...