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...large as the U.S. had in the field at the 1918 Armistice. The Army Ordnance Association perfects plans for the rapid conversion of private metal sheet & tube factories, for example, into shell factories ; keeps such factories' knowledge of shell-making up-to-date; plans for emergency purchases of raw materials; for orderly output and delivery of the finished product...
...present Commission, appointed by the President and Fellows of the University, is now undertaking detailed research work to determine the nature of the agencies which communicate infantile paralysis," said Mr. Pierce. "Raw milk is one of the few positively known means by which the disease is spread. To prevent this spreading, pasteurization should be employed. As for checking and curing the disease, Massachusetts and Vermont officials, cooperating with the Harvard Commission, believe they are on the road to success in abating infantile paralysis by the use of a serum made from the blood of human beings who have...
...draft. Then they are stacked in a hemispherical kiln usually 30 feet in diameter by 12 feet in height. A yard full of kilns looks quite like a group of dirty red igloos. Their orifices are plugged up and a fire lit under a stout grating upon which the raw bricks are piled. In six to ten days they are burned hard and useful. Their red color is the result of iron in the clay and sand. White bricks come of lime added to a specially prepared clay. Various minerals added to the base clay give "tapestry" bricks...
...Those raw bricks are to be placed on small cars and slowly passed through the 500-foot tunnel kiln which Harbison-Walker's President Lewis is having built at East Chicago. In passage they will endure a heat of 2,700° Fahrenheit. (Temperature of boiling water is 212° F.) Spoilage of bricks is expected to be trivial...
...come 10,000 miles from its northern worm, raw silk and silk goods, silk for hose and gown and pajama and whatnot. Chinese had tended it; Japanese had borne it across the Pacific of which commerce they are masters. It had arrived at Vancouver, safely unloaded from the N. Y. K.'s* Paris Marn. Safely it was stored in an 18-car train of the Canadian Pacific-$6,000,000 of silk. The world first heard of it when $1,500,000 of it (five car loads) lay wrecked and storm-strewn in the valley of Frazer River, only...