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...July 4, no golden tourbillions will cascade fire down the night sky. There will be no blinding saucisson shells, no bengolas, no spidery pyro cuttlefish, no earwhacking bombshells, no climactic Niagara Falls. The U.S. is without its tradition al fireworks (except for a few bootleg pops) because the whole fireworks indus try has become a sizzling skyrocket...
...Commissioner. United States Industrial Alcohol has a 40,000,000-gal. capacity, but its share of the industry's total production was only about 38%, or 30,000,000 gal. The company makes some products for the retail trade, such as Alcorub, a massage, Alcogas for gasoline engines, Pyro for radiators. It also controls Sterno Corp., heat canners. Its biggest customers are in the automobile and chemical industries, where alcohol and its by-products are used for solvents, lacquers, fertilizers. Industrial Alcohol works hand-in-hand with Air Reduction, the two companies having recently joined their research departments...
Miss Tashman contributes some highly insinuating sex appeal which was rivaled by the considerable expenditure of the same commodity by Miss Dorsay. Mr. McLaglen himself plays a rather negative part in the midst of these pyro-technics, but he manages to come through in the end with his good humor and incidentally the fifty thousand dollars...
...when the Papacy was deprived of its temporal power. The illumination was done not with electricity but with thousands of tallow torches and candles, many of which were encased in saucer-shaped lanterns, giving the impression of a blazing building. It took 300 men a fortnight to prepare the pyro display. Many thousands of frantic people cheered in polyglot tongue: "Long live the Pope!" "Vivet la Sainte Thérèse!" "Viva la Chiesa Romana...
...Physical Colloquium. "A New Theory of Pyro-electricity." II. Mr. E. C. Kemble, in Room 25, Jefferson Physical Laboratory...