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...secret is an afterburner developed by the Blu-Surf Division of Hayes-Albion Co. of Jackson, Mich., and installed on a stack of the S.D. Warren Co., a paper mill whose emissions have long irritated Muskegon residents. Paper mills smell because they emit sulfide and methyl-mercaptan gases. Instead of venting those gases into the air, the destinking system sends them into a special furnace fed by pressurized air and natural gas. The fumes are then forced through a flame that burns at 1350° F., which is the oxidation point of the sulfides and mercaptans. The resultant oxides...
...Geneviève Deschranes, an imbecile French housewife with an abnormally small vagina. Regularly, Geneviève sends twenty-page love letters-disguised as chapters of a novel -to Philippe Perrigny, a second-rate French journalist who believes that lurking somewhere in the depths of perfidious Albion's Mother Goose is a symbolic answer to the riddle of the universe. Philippe in turn is married, as unsatisfactorily as possible, to Shirley Norrington Higgins Perrigny, an odd Canadian girl, and the heroine of this peculiar yet delightful novel...
...splendors of Palladian architecture, young Englishmen, usually with tutors, infested Europe for three centuries. With well-chosen pictures and pungent quotations from travelers (including Diarist John Evelyn, Tobias Smollett and Edward Gibbon), this book gives a remarkably funny and extremely revealing country-by-coun-try account of Albion's impact upon the Continent-and incontinent...
...major supplier to the auto industry, Collins L. Carter, chairman of Hayes-Albion Corp., which makes castings and parts, has lowered his prediction of output from 8,700,000 vehicles to an even 8,000,000 for the 1970-model years. The auto companies themselves are officially holding to their forecasts, which are generally in line with G.M. President Edward Cole's estimate of 8,500,000 domestic cars. To reach that sales goal, automakers are counting on buyers returning to the showrooms next spring...
...thought to fend him off with a stock plagiarism, "You look about as much like my grandmother as Calvin Coolidge looks like the MGM lion." He, cleverly, ignored her. She, feeling somewhat naked, had no choice but to go with him. The idea is in the mood. They spoke. Albion Moonlight...