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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...
With these special opportunities MARCH OF TIME will resume its peculiar function of giving auditors the sense of being on the scene of great events. One of TIME'S managing editors took direct charge of preparing the script. Part of TIME'S staff and all of TIME'S newsgathering resources were placed at his disposal to give a coherent story of the events of a stirring new decade...
...crack Second Armored Division to the Blues, started with a force smaller than he had had in the preceding week. With his reserves based on Shreveport, he flung his advance elements far to the south. He employed all combat bodies, including his Red air force, in widespread reconnaissance, a function in which neither side had shown up too well the week before...
...training room and bathing room are littered with machines of strange appearance whose function is to heat injured parts to speed circulation and healing. "Deep heat" treatment for injuries too far beneath the skin to respond to the heat lamp or hot water is given by short and long wave diathermy by means of two machines analogous to radio transmitters...
Although the over-all results of the maneuvers' first battle were good enough, the showing of enlisted soldiers (particularly noncoms) better than that, the week's hard pounding showed up many a soft spot. One of them was communications, which did not always function at par. Another was the poor tactical showing of many officers...