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...Treated with organic solvents, soybean meal makes a plastic which is light, durable, almost transparent, waterproof, fireproof, rotproof. Many auto parts and countless miscellaneous objects are made of it. A main drawback, which chemists soon expect to overcome, is that it is hygroscopic (too eager to absorb water...
...Mutual rather than be put in the Blue package. Besides its acquisitions in Baltimore and Pittsburgh, Mutual will also take over next fortnight Buffalo's WGR, a CBS outlet, which decided to shift allegiance when its sister station WKBW moved to CBS. Next year Mutual will absorb three more NBC stations...
...many as 20,000 captives were sacrificed at one time in the Aztec metropolis. Victims' flesh was sometimes eaten "in the belief that the eater can absorb the virtues of the eaten...
...ambition which led Napoleon to mutilate, dismember, absorb, fetter, and violate so many states: it was fear, the anxiety to reduce the losers to absolute impotence; but the result was always the opposite: the more Napoleon maltreated his victims, the more he feared them...
...past few years, Brazil has sold all of its coffee that the world market would absorb at considerably less than the current 235 milreis ($11.75) a bag, F.O.B. Growers have received about 2 milreis a bag from the Government for the rest. Now the Government expects to be able to pay a decent price for surplus coffee, get the money back from the sale of cafelite...