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...took less than 48 hours last week to send all these facts and factors over the dam. The people who own most in the world are supposed to know a good deal about what goes on in it. Obviously Herr Hitler caught them napping, for in Berne, Amsterdam, London, New York, markets fell last week and kept falling as big investors hastily unloaded in something very like a panic. If they had not known what Chancellor Hitler was going to do last week until he actually did it, how could they tell what he was going to do next...
...produced 44 billion kilowatt-hours of hydroelectricity in 1938. Potential maximum of all practicable waterpower sites has been estimated around 325 billion kwh. Though completion of the New Deal's dam program will not harness all this, experts foresee a big surplus over municipal and irrigation power needs. They also claim they know how to mop it up-build electrochemical factories near damsites, with hungry electricity-eaters like furnaces to produce calcium carbide (from limestone and coal electrically heated to 4,000° F.), acetylene, alcohol, acetone, fertilizers, insecticides, plastics. One modern, three-electrode calcium carbide furnace requires...
...Colorado River's Boulder Dam has six giant generators which turn out 82.500 kilowatts each. Among hydroelectric turbine machines, these hold a record for power. But Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. pointed out last week that "records don't last long among water wheels." The company has started work on three generators rated at 108,000 kilowatts apiece...
These are for Washington's Grand Coulee, biggest engineering enterprise in history, and will get into action in 1941. They will weigh 960 tons each, measure 48.5 ft. across as against the Boulder Dam generators...
...compete with concrete. Rubber is vulnerable to oil and sun, so scientists have developed rubbery synthetics like DuPrene which are not. Such new products as Goodyear's Pliofilm and Goodrich's Koroseal are beginning to threaten Cellophane as packaging material. From rubber conveyor belts (Grand Coulee Dam has one 10,000 ft. long), the industry expects to make millions. Other developments: acid-resisting tanks, sun-resisting paint...