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...entrance your ticket calls for. What's that? Double M. Q coming. Z coming. Up to your left, please. Don't block the aisle. Keep moving, please. Fourth and fifth seats in. Up in the colonnade, please. . . . The afternoon had scarcely begun, but his throat was raw and dry already. Too many cigarettes and those sawdust sandwiches were responsible for that. Hell of a thing anyhow--having to usher on the Dartmouth side. Showing those belligerent guys to their seats. Almost afraid to yell for Harvard. Having to listen to them cheer when any decent person would moan, and vice...
...investigator to look over the Wurtele harvester, would venture no comment whatever as to its practicability pending his report. If the machine should prove practical and come into widespread use, it would affect mainly the labor economy of Florida and Louisiana, which between them account for almost all the raw cane sugar (400,000 tons last year) raised in the U.S. proper...
...partition the Czechs have lost important industries, natural resources, and will be subjected to terrific German economic pressure, while the Sudetens have lost their chief markets, are cut off from raw materials, and will suffer increased unemployment, Deutsch said...
There are only a few major raw materials of which the U. S. does not have its own supplies. Such are rubber...
When rayon appeared it was at first hoped that it would completely replace silk as raw material. It never did because, among other reasons, it lacked silk's elasticity (a rayon stocking, for example, wrinkles instead of clinging to the knee and sharp-eyed women maintained they could tell the difference at a glance). The new fibre (made of complex nitrogen compounds, among them cadaverine*), as silky as silk itself, can be produced in sizes one-tenth to one-seventy-fifth finer than silk filament, and in some sizes has 150% greater tensile strength. Its elasticity is such that...