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...name Vermonter-so I feel that we are fellow Vermonters. 3) My occupation during more than 30 years has been editing (daily newspapers), publishing, and printing. With these premises and qualifyings, may I comment on the "Great Mystery" (TIME, March 18). You tell your subscribers that in the plant of the Cuneo Press, where Cosmopolitan Magazine is printed, "numerous compositors set portions of an article that were 'meaningless fragments' to them." I have read this "On Entering and Leaving the Presidency''; and if anyone has told a TIME writer that even Printer Cuneo could have...
Sulphate Fog. Just within Canada on the western border is a copper plant which belches forth a fog of copper sulphate, destructive to orchards in the State of Washington for miles around. Washington, D. C., has, so far unsuccessfully, attempted to dispel this sulphate fog. but control over the winds seems the solution...
Last week an aspirant to the French Academy of Sciences, Dr. H. Barjot, printed in Paris his suggestion to the Academy of a temperature-differential power plant the inverse of Academician Claude's. Dr. Barjot would generate his power in Polar regions where water under the ice is 32° F. (freezing) or warmer and the air above 20° below zero or colder. He would pump sub-ice water into a surface tank partially filled with butane or some other hydrocarbon of low vaporization point. In the tank the ice water would freeze and release it? comparative heat...
...standard of measurement, U. S. Steel has a rated capacity production of about 43% of total U. S. steel capacity. Bethlehem can pro duce about 15% of the total, leaving about 42% for independent companies. Prominent among these companies are: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. Three-fourths of the plant, nearly all the directorate, in Youngstown, Ohio. Makes principally pipe, sheet and tube; therefore best customers are the oil and automobile companies. Merger with Inland Steel Co. (Chicago district) has been frequently reported, was once almost completed, is still rumored. Ranks as Third Largest (3,000, 000-ton capacity); earned...
...Byers Co. Largest U. S. manufacturer of wrought iron pipe; is building a $10,000,000 plant for production of seamless pipe using a new process (Aston process) that reduces cost of wrought iron; affiliated with Oil Well Supply Co., which distributes Byers pipe to oil industry...