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...similar problem, about how to get the Navy 2,600,000 lb. of copper developed last December, was solved by finding a loophole in the law: buying copper which had been refined before the law was passed. Navy Men Roosevelt and Edison were also worried, not only because Britain had launched a $7,500,000,000 naval building program but because it was quite possible that Britain might buy 44-hour steel from the U. S. while the U. S. Navy could get no steel. The President had no solution to offer, and next day he put pressure...
...chemicals which Dr. Gericke adds to his water are those which ordinary plants need and get from the soil-calcium, magnesium, potassium, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, iron, boron, manganese, copper, zinc. Wire netting is stretched over the top of the tanks and packed with excelsior or sawdust in which the seeds are planted and from which roots sprout down into the water. This bed of litter on the netting serves to support the stalks after the plants are grown. Each tank has an area of .01 acre. In one of these Dr. Gericke grew 1,224 lb. of tomatoes, in another...
Helen, the problem child, was boy-crazy from the start, but not so crazy that she miscalculated her own value. Her first marriage, to a fat old copper tycoon, got her out of Silver Bow to the happy hunting grounds of the East. There she had a series of affairs, a series of marriages, at book's end was still going strong as a problem child in her fifties...
...growth of WPA projects gave Sculptor Bufano another chance. Abandoning stone, he thought of a figure of glittering stainless steel, arms upraised in benediction. He made a model of redwood and copper, shrewdly choosing Regional Director Joseph Danysh of the Federal Art Project for his model. Then the arguments were on. Even the Catholic Church was divided, Father George of the Franciscans, representing the Father Provincial of the Western United States, violently objecting that the statue was an insult to his Order, Archbishop Mitty approving...
...develop such intuitive powers which lead them to harmony." Owner of most of these non-objects, Solomon Guggenheim, celebrated his 76th birthday last week. Fourth of the seven sons of old Meyer Guggenheim, Colorado mining tycoon, he was one of the most active members in developing the Guggenheim copper empire. He is still a director in half-a-dozen mining companies besides holding a partnership in Guggenheim Bros. He has served as board chairman of American Smelting & Refining Co. Many years ago he began to collect pictures, built up a valuable collection of such objective paintings as Dutch old masters...