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...determined. > In timing steel smelting. All iron contains traces of phosphorus which makes steel brittle and must be "burned" out by prolonged cooking. Steel is often overcooked, wasting time and money, just to make sure. But Westinghouse scientists in East Pittsburgh now make radioactive phosphorus with their atom-smasher, add a little of it to the molten iron. Then, as the steel cooks, it is an easy matter to take hourly samples, test them for radioactivity. When the radioactivity is gone, the phosphorus is gone...
...very practical things. It's about time we abandoned such cliches as "battle of the free peoples of the world" and "war against the leaders of our enemies not the people." These may be very good rallying cries, but as guides to a practical policy they don't add up, Look at the Russian situation for instance...
Arizona Cacti. The giant saguaro cacti, Carnegiea gigantea (named for Andrew Carnegie)-which are not especially useful, but add an exotic beauty to Arizona's landscape-have now & then fallen sick, but in 1940 a bacterial disease attacked them with unusual virulence. Some giants developed oozy cankers, bled to death in a fortnight. Some developed rot pockets. Some looked healthy, then toppled suddenly to reveal decayed roots. The disease still rages and Plant Pathologist James Greenlief Brown of the University of Arizona and co-workers told how to save the giant cactus from extinction. Small sores...
...moment U.S. arms manufacturers began to step up their operations to Franklin Roosevelt's 168-hour week, they ran into the most discouraging shortage of all: skilled labor. A spotty reality for months, it became serious when key industries like machine tool manufacture tried to add a third and fourth shift. In many cases foremen, lead men and supervisors have had to work 70 hours a week to keep things going...
MURDER WITH YOUR MALTED-Jerome Barry-Crime Club ($2). An outbreak of food and soda poisoning in a Manhattan drugstore drives the young owners almost frantic until a police inspector sets a trap that catches the killer. Soda-fountain argot and wisecracking Broadway dialogue add zest to the well-tangled plot...