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Steady, grim and forbidding in a wind-chopped sea, the new 35,000-ton U.S.S. North Carolina last week took a cruel final test such as no man-of-war had ever met before: two and three-quarter tons of powder exploded aboard her, flinging twelve tons of shells miles across the water...
Life at the Summer School was carried on as usual this year in a powder-puff atmosphere, but even the novelty of a co-ed Harvard failed to dispel the gloomy war clouds which hung over the Yard throughout the session...
Observing caustically that "with Burma sitting on a powder keg herself, I see no reason why she should take money at the expense of a potential military ally," at week's end he had goaded Whitehall authorities into making "urgent" official representations to semi-autonomous Burma, suggesting immediate lifting...
...middle 70s) Eugene Reybold (pronounced Rye-Bold), who was brought to Washington a year ago by Chief of Staff Marshall to head G-4 (supply) section of the General Staff.* Although he has been in the Army since 1908, Gene Reybold, unlike many an engineer officer, has never smelled powder, but like most he has had wide building experience. Long a worker on U.S. rivers, and conqueror of the Ohio-Mississippi flood of 1937, he was Division Engineer at Little Rock, with a long record of crack administration behind him, when he went to the General Staff...
Method he hit on was to grind green coffee beans, extract the soluble alkaloids (notably caffeine) and part of the oil, cook the remainder under pressure in the presence of a catalyst. The result is cafelite, a dark brown powder which can be colored like other plastics, can be used to make anything from ashtrays to building materials. Out of a Brazilian bag of coffee (132 lb.) the Polin process makes 70 lb. of cafelite, 1 lb. of caffeine, plus smaller amounts of other byproducts, including vitamins...