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...flame does not affect it, but an electric arc may. The oxide does, however, shrink in volume at high temperatures. Thorium oxide has been utilized to make crucibles for holding molten platinum. The oxide itself was melted only in a hollow formed in a heap of its own powder...
...week in the deep seas and caught, in one word, nothing. The most promising nibble was testimony of a minor official in the Department of Justice to the effect that the Department had failed to recover between $5,000,000 and $20,000,000 from a subsidiary Du Pont (powder) company. This big fish got off the line before it was hooked. The fishing proceeded...
...duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc., powder-makers, offered $2,500 in merchandise prizes to the individual or club which, at the end of a three months' season, has killed the most crows or other birds or animals termed "vermin" in the prospectus of their competition. To prove the verminosity of the crow, an expedition of the duPont company went to the islands off the Virginia coast, habitat of the "fish crow"-peculiarly vicious. Many notable men have sprung, indignant, to the crow's defense. To his people of the State of Maine, Governor Percival Proctor Baxter made proclamation...
Evidently the market for powder has fallen off, due to the fact that there is no active warfare going on in the world on a large scale, and so the poor crows must be used as an outlet for an unsalable product. Dr. Edward W. Nelson, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey, not only refused to endorse the crow-killing, but denounced it as being based upon "false information as to the nature of the crow." Massachusetts officials telegraphed the Deleware corporation protesting...
...powder more potent than aspirin...