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...come across but an article on the Duchess of Windsor, whom I had admired. She sent for Wayne Forrest, a famous hairdresser, to come to Nassau to do her hair. For this trip he had to fly and bring a permanent-wave dryer, packets of nail polish, rouge, powder, lipstick. All this would cost a large sum of money...
...peaceful wooded hills of northern New Jersey, at Kenvil, lie the 400 acres of one of Hercules Powder Co.'s seven explosive plants. In this sub-sylvan spot, men, treading softly, cook a recipe of destruction...
...last week, in a solvents recovery building, something went wrong with the brew. A small explosion made employes in the other 49 buildings take alarm. Flames shot from the windows of the recovery house. Before men could let go their held breath, 200,000 pounds of smokeless powder went up in a hell's delight of flame and thunder...
...possible causes of the blast, the fourth explosion in U. S. powder works within five weeks,* employes and officials guessed at spontaneous combustion or some fault with the compressor in the recovery building. But, mindful of disasters in U. S. munitions factories during World War I, agents of FBI, the Army and Navy, dug through the Hercules ruins looking for evidences of sabotage...
...housing agencies partly financed.* Last week Mr. Palmer figured that the U. S. defense industries needed 42,000 new housing units, the Navy needed 65.700 more; the Army soon would need at least 50.000. Within a year or so, must come also housing for workers of the new powder, gun, armor, and other factories which the Army and Navy expect to finance. To a $5,246,000,000 Defense Bill which Congress passed last week, $100,000,000 had been added for general defense housing, $128,000,000 for National Guard barracks...