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Iceboxes. . . . You won't find chromium hinges; the shelves are lighter than you'd find at $19.85, but they're heavy enough for average service...
...fiction, Edna Ferber has long turned out best-selling goods in three different models: novels, short stories and, with collaborators, plays. Like all carefully machined products for mass consumption, Edna Ferber's stories are as competently finished, as conservatively up-to-date, as shiny with neat paintwork and chromium fittings, as unindividual as next year's family model, f. o. b. Detroit...
...Last week Harvard's Dr. Peter Mackenzie Millman proudly reported that he had spectral pictures of nine meteors. Six, possibly seven were mostly stone. All contained some iron (heated to vapors of between 2,600° and 4,600° F.). One or more contained calcium, manganese, aluminum, chromium. Three containing magnesium burned greenishly...
...chairman and chief backer, and this time he won a clear victory. Rustless Iron was launched in 1926 to exploit the U. S. rights to a simple process for making stainless steel, developed by a fat, genial Briton from Sheffield named Ronald Wild. The Wild process combines chromium and steel in one step where other processes take three steps. Shortly before Metallurgist Wild retired because of poor health in 1931, Charlie Payson became visible in the light of fireworks in Rustless Iron stock...
...there that [Dr. Irving] Langmuir and I can play around. He stands between us and the demands that we do something practical." Dr. Whitney is now 64, and worn out. Apart from his executive duties he has done research on his own account-solubility, colloids, suspensions, corrosion of iron, chromium sulphate compounds. His latest work has been on radiothermy, raising the temperature of the body by high frequency waves. Radiothermy is now being used, in preference to malaria, to create the artificial fever which makes paretics at least temporarily clear-minded. Two years ago Dr. Whitney suffered a nervous breakdown...