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Besides doing actual camouflage work on the models, the students study the science of blending colors to match season-changing landscape. They learn how to conceal the revealing crooks of rivers and ponds by anchoring floats on them or by covering the surface of the water with sawdust...
...gases for the engine. This means a new diversion of semiprecious light steel or cast iron. The generator can be mounted on the rear bumper, the trunk compartment or the rumble seat, can be charged with coal or charcoal, but more cheaply with a charge of equal parts of sawdust and chopped or "hogged" wood. A carefully controlled draft prevents complete combustion of the wood while generating carbon monoxide, the fuel actually used by the motor. The combustible gas is blown or sucked into the engine manifold. Cleaners are provided to remove tar, water, dust...
...could be found, the Germans released their rage in the volleys of firing squads. In Norway the invaders confiscated 80% of the herring catch. Living now on herring and seed potatoes, the Norwegians were told by Vidkun Quisling that next winter they will eat only bread made of fine sawdust and "peat flour...
...American Chemical Society convened in Detroit last week, Professor Ernst Berl of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute for Technology made an astonishing announcement. He said he had made, experimentally but successfully, oil, coal, coke and asphalt from grass, leaves, seaweed, sawdust, scrap lumber, corn, cornstalks, cotton...
Into the grand ballroom of Washington's Mayflower Hotel last week ambled two cows, two horses, five sheep, seven dogs, a covey of Congressmen. At the far end of the ballroom a tier of seats was jammed with spectators. On the sawdust-sprinkled floor, a man in white moved into a spotlight to pour several gallons of Epsom salts through a tube into a cow's stomach. The show was no circus, but a serious scientific meeting-one of the clinical sessions of the American Veterinary Association's annual convention...