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...mine layer Oglala, an old passenger ship converted during World...
...soil at Recife is nearly pure sand, must be watered down to keep it from blowing away. From a nearby quarry clay is hauled, spread over the sand base in a six-inch layer. Over this go two three-inch layers of soil stabilization mixture. The result is equivalent to good cement, but is cheap, quick and resistant to the equatorial...
Washington newshawks, case-hardened characters who measure a public man by the probable length of his obituary, last week sentimentally chipped in $7, bought a seven-pound, four-layer White Mountain cake topped with white, pink and green icing, with 21 large pink candles rakishly atilt in pink rosebud holders...
Eastman's new method produces a print in one operation. Main principle: a triple coating of sensitive chemicals on the surface to be printed, each layer of chemicals picking up a different set of colors from the transparencies. Final prints are not on paper but on a sort of celluloid, are at present processed-like home movies in color-only at Eastman's laboratories...
Last week angry Nazis joined the French police in hunting the wreath layer, described as "one of the most active De Gaullist agents" in Caen. Nazi-controlled Paris-soir said he was an Englishman, Jean Hopper, whose mother, wife and daughter are in a concentration camp...