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...thick, so roundly red, so pregnant with earsplitting, tooth-jarring noise? Where are the backyard skyrockets, with their colored, cone-topped heads and their delicate pinewood sticks? Where are the politicians who spoke, jowls aquiver and veins distended, on the glorious day amid the pleasantly acrid smell of burnt powder? Where are the red, white and blue floats built on flat bed-trucks? Where is the George M. Cohan roll for the player piano and the rock salt for the ice-cream freezer on the back porch...
...siege of Boston introduced Washington to his awful responsibilities. Sixteen thousand Americans were camped in a great semicircle around Boston. They had, somehow, to be fed, disciplined, taught some rudiments of military maneuvering-and used against the enemy. Few had uniforms. Few had enough powder-in fact, Washington discovered there was hardly enough powder in the whole country to fight one battle...
...Because of Me." He scraped along for a few years with a small import-export business, then in 1934 got into munitions. He managed to talk the National Bank of Greece, which held control of the Greek Powder & Cartridge Co. and wanted to sell it, into lending him enough ($500,000), to buy its share of the company...
Between long bouts of powder-room chitchat. The Echoing Grove commendably attempts to dig below the surface of life, but its well-manicured prose cuts into reality about as deeply as a nail file into California redwood...
...promising field of powder metallurgy is rapidly enlarging its horizons: jet rotor blades of exceptional hardness and heat resistance are now being made at of powdered titanium carbide and a metallic binder fused under tremendous heat and pressure. The big unsolved problem is cost: an incredible $30,000 per ton v. $780 to $1,020 for stainless steel. But as Wilson's program expands production, nobody doubts that U.S. ingenuity and research will whittle down the cost, just as magnesium's cost has been whittled from $5 in 1915 to 27? a pound in 1953. In that prospect...