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...about 98.5% sheet steel, 1.5% tin. (A recent WPB order has reduced the tin content of future cans to 1.25%.) By washing and shredding the cans, then treating with caustic soda and other chemicals, it is possible to extract about 25 Ib. of tin oxide (readily smelted to a grade equivalent to Straits tin) per ton. The detinned sheet steel, once despised and used only for rough castings such as sash weights, is now in big demand by scrap-hungry steelmakers...
...more course in Math plus two more which may be Math or certain subjects in the related fields of Astronomy, Chemistry, Engineering Sciences, or Economics, plus tutorial work, complete the ordinary requirements for concentration. Honors candidates need five courses above the Freshman grade in Math. and related subjects...
...Indirectly, war is putting silver spoons in American mouths. Sterling silver tableware contains much less copper than high-grade plated ware, is therefore likely to be available when plated ware...
What Reap hasn't got is what it takes, which money can't buy. This so-called saga of the seafaring U.S. of 1840 is seldom credible, only occasionally exciting. It has its moments (some Grade-A brawling, excellent underwater photography, an occasional astonishing set), but they are inadequate substitutes for real characters and a good story. The story itself is the successful fight of shipowners to break up a gang of salvage pirates among the Florida keys. Paulette Goddard is there, speakin' Southern and doin' her best to get a little honest salvage away from...
...ROTC Quartermaster Corps at the Business School here is of much higher calibre than average," the Colonel declared, "and I have been trying to get some of the graduates as instructors." He cited as an example Lester Hanks, who went on from here to the highest grade in the history of the training school at Philadelphia, and is now in charge of the new unit at Texas...