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...simply that there is too much coal. In the U. S., which is seamed with 45% of the world's reserve, 31 States mine coal, probably five more are underlaid with it. This brings about inevitable complications. Coal operators cut each others' throats, often selling their product below the margin of a safe return on their investment. The real pain of the trouble is transmitted to the miners, who strike, riot, threaten, starve in the throes of wretched living conditions and inadequate wages. Since 1919 this has been the condition, steadily growing graver, in an industry which...
Wearied of ambiguities. Federal Judge Merrill E. Otis ruled in his Kansas City, Mo. court that Ukiah Grape Products Co.. although its juices were unfermented when sold to a customer, incriminated itself in fact because its agents not only assured purchasers that "the product would come up to the standard of any pre-War wine." but went around to the customer's house to "service" or bottle the inevitably intoxicating after-product. Judge Otis went backward from result to cause to prove intent...
...addressed the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society at Akron to describe the following experiment: By catalytic polymerization of acetylene they had produced mono-vinylacetylene. This they had treated with hydrogen chloride to obtain chloroprene. Polymerization of the chloroprene had resulted in a sub stance similar to the product obtained by vulcanizing rubber with sulphur. Stopping the polymerization at an intermediate point gave them ? Rubber. In short, they had produced synthetic rubber from acet ylene (product of coal and limestone), salt and water. While the rubber chem ists cheered, the three young du Ponters ? W. H. Carothers...
...enthusiastic du Pont Co. immediately christened their product Duprene, ordered a plant built at Deepwater, N. J. to manufacture rt commercially. Since it needs only acetylene, salt and water, it will not be expensive to make. Duprene looks like natural rubber, shows the same molecular makeup in xray, but is denser, more resistant to water absorption, to attacks by ozone, oxygen and other chemicals, to swelling by gasoline & kerosene. It is vulcanized by heat alone, without sulphur. At high temperatures it hardens slowly. Its powers of resistance are expected to give it many commercial uses now denied to rubber...
...sketching of puppy-love. One recalls pleasantly over the years the beautiful Marjorie Jones of the golden curls, the twelve-year-old coquette who was so heart-breakingly cool and distant as she strolled inside her white picket-fence of a Sunday afternoon. One remembers Fanchon, the exotic little product of great hotels and continental schools, who actually "were her hair up" and shocked the children's party with the new Bunny Hug and Turkey Trot and Slingo Sligo Slide. Those naive and incredible days of 1912 made a story that, in retrospect, has the quaint provincialism of "Cranford...