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...rolling mill. Planned for the Republic Steel Corp. plant at Gadsden is a $6,000,000 addition to forge 105-mm. anti-aircraft shells. Also in the blueprint stage are a $12,800,000 underground ammunition storage area at Anniston, a $47,997,000 powder plant and $15,000.000 powder-bag loading plant at tiny Childersburg (population...
...Dartmouth Region N.H. Cloudy Fair 11 Unbreakable Crust Intervale, N.H. Cloudy Poor 10 Unbreakable Crust Jackson, N.H. Cloudy Poor 11 Unbreakable Crust Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Cloudy Poor 11 Unbreakable Crust Lancaster, Fair Fair 13 Crusty Laurentian Mts. N.H. Cloudy Good 38 Powder Lincoln Can. Cloudy Fair 10 Packed snow Littleton, N.H. Fair Poor 9 Monadnock Region, N.H. Cloudy Fair 7 Icy crust Newfound Region, N.H. Cloudy Good 22 Corn Surface North Conway, N.H. Cloudy Fair 10 Unbreakable crust North Woodstock, N.H. Cloudy Fair 10 Packed Snow Ossipee Region N.H. Cloudy Poor 10 Frozen granular Pinkham Notch N.H. Cloudy Poor...
...iron, it can be used in airplane motors, crankcases, landing wheels, pontoons; the weight it saves can then be switched to gasoline or bomb load. It also has important military use in lightweight bomb casings and (because of the inflammability which once made it invaluable to photographers as flashlight powder) in parachute flares, incendiary bombs, tracer bullets. German production, according to Arnold, has jumped 500% since 1938 (to an estimated 25,000 tons last year...
...Hercules Powder Co. of Wilmington was assigned Patent No. 2,228,309 for an artillery gunpowder which is smokeless, moisture-resistant and flashless. Other such powders have been developed but they are complicated, costly, hard to handle. The new powder contains only three ingredients: nitrocellulose, dinitrotoluene, diphenylamine. These are treated with an alcohol-acetone solvent, mixed, squirted out in strands like spaghetti, finally pulverized to grain size...
...which workers are commuting over a 30-60-mile radius. In tiny Sidney (N. Y.), mushrooming with a Bendix aircraft-parts plant, vacant homes have been sought 25 miles away in Norwich, N. Y.* At Charlestown (Ind.), the Government has given up the job of housing 5,000 powder-plant workers, hires commuters from Louisville 15 miles away (TIME...