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...engaged in the study of the properties of electrical insulation. As is well known, electrical engineering involves the use of three types of materials: conducting materials such as copper and aluminum; magnetic materials such as iron and steel from which magnets are made; and insulating materials such as rubber paper, cotton, oils, porcelain, and other similar materials which have the property of insulating the electric circuit. It is only by employing insulating materials that electric currents can be made to flow in the electric conductors. Otherwise, they would leak away, and it would therefore be difficult to transmit power...
...past two years, however, the Firestone Rubber Co. has obtained a concession for the establishment of rubber plantations within the republic. This will mean the opening up of the whole area, the establishment of a great industry, and the employment of thousands of natives who have had hitherto little or no contact with civilization. The inevitable result of such an enterprise will be the development of the economic resources of the country and a profound modification in the primitive culture of its savage population. Almost invariably, industrialization of a country inhabited by primitive people has resulted in the destruction...
...House of Commons an attempt to pull Sir John's leg was made by another, more humorous, Scot, Austin Hopkinson, M. P. "Will not the Right Honorable Gentleman," he suggested, "take it upon himself to order that all third class eggs shall be rubber stamped with the Scottish national motto: Nemo me impune lacessit...
...garages of course, and also in steel mills and coal mines. It is, in fact, found wherever gas is used. Unfortunately there are new poisons appearing all the time, but there is no governmental agency to investigate them. If a manufacturer wants to find out the quality of a rubber solvent, he can write to the Bureau of Standards; if he wants to find out the effects the solvent will have on his workmen, however, he is at a complete loss. Consequently he starts to use it cautiously and instead of using guinea pigs and rabbits, human beings are experimented...
This year there were more than 850 items at the annual exhibition of Manhattan's Society of Independent Artists in which anyone may exhibit anything by paying $6 for wall space. Youth, often nude, was the keynote. Expression varied from abstractions in wood and rubber to the blushful romanticism of Victorian candy-box painting...