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Siemens & Halske's beryllium has been manufactured by a slow electrolytic process. The Schwarz process is a heat treatment. From a ton of beryl ore costing $100, Metallurgist Schwarz says he can obtain 100 Ib. of pure beryllium. The ore is plentiful in New Hampshire. New York, the Carolinas, Colorado, usually being found with feldspar deposits...
...British Foreign Office began by informing M. Briand that his "proposals" have been "examined with profound interest." Next "fullest sympathy" was expressed for "closer economic cooperation" which was more heavily stressed in the original "United States of Europe" than it is today. Finally, however, the British landed like a ton of paving stones from Trafalgar Square upon the European Union because of its resem- blance to the League of Nations...
...hundred years ago Chile exported its first ton of nitrate of soda. The ton was shipped to New York, where no buyer appeared, no one knew exactly what to do with it. By now the U. S. (and every one else) knows well enough what to do with Chilean nitrate. In peacetimes one throws it on the ground as fertilizer. In wartimes one must have nitrogen to make explosives. Out of Germany's War-time need for nitrates came various processes for making synthetic nitrogen. And out of these processes came ever-increasing synthetic competition for the natural Chilean...
...flat, the weather fair on March 4, 1918, when the Navy's 19,360-ton collier Cyclops put out of Barbados for Baltimore. She was carrying a heavy cargo of Brazilian manganese, badly needed by U. S. steel plants making War munitions. She slipped over the Caribbean horizon and, though no enemy warship was thought to be in the vicinity, she never was heard from again, by wireless or otherwise. Searching craft found no trace of wreckage. Of the 293 people aboard, no body was ever recovered. Said Wartime Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels in his report that...
England keeps a leonine eye on all Scandinavia. George Y's introspective sister Maud is Queen of Norway and his mother was Denmark's radiant, regal Alexandra. Last week the most powerful fighting ship on Earth, the 33,900-ton British "superdreadnought" Rodney* hove up to Iceland for a friendly game of Lion & Mouse. The mouse was the trim little Danish orlogsskibe (coast defense ship) Nils Iuel of 4,200 tons. She carried Their Majesties Christian & Alexandrine, King & Queen of Denmark & Iceland, who had come to open amid international jubilation and with Icelandic pomp the "Mother of Parliaments...