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...Commission has arranged to build eleven new plants to make powder, high explosives, ammonia, and to load shell cases. Five more are planned. Said Mr. Knudsen: "I need not tell you gentlemen that the powder question was awfully late in getting started. . . ." Last week Army men murmured that Franklin Roosevelt caused some of the delay by holding up contracts for new munitions plants. The Navy meantime allotted $96,000,000 to 15 ship and naval armor makers, to expand their production facilities...
...temperature of Jupiter is about 220° below zero F., and the outer planets-Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto-are even colder, which eliminates them as harborers of life. Moreover the atmospheres of the big planets contain great quantities of ammonia and methane, which are poisonous to earthly organisms. These substances are rich in hydrogen, lightest of gases and hence the most likely to escape from a planet's gravitational pull. The big planets are massive enough still to retain most of their original hydrogen, hence the ammonia and methane. The young earth locked up some useful hydrogen in water...
...apparatus which wakes a drowsing automobile driver by blowing ammonia vapor into his face when he relaxes his grip on the wheel...
Chemicals: Ammonia and ammonium compounds, chlorine, dimethylaniline (for explosives), diphenylamine (for smokeless powder), nitric acid, nitrates, nitrocellulose, soda lime, sodium acetate, strontium chemicals (for explosives), sulfuric acid...
...casting made in stainless steel, foundry engineers had to tax their wits to meet the technical requirements. Into nine synthetic sand molds made from the plaster model, ten tons of molten stainless steel (temperature 3,000° F.) were poured. When the steel had cooled, four hundred gallons of ammonia and nitric acid, 3,000 gallons of boiling water, were sloshed over its surface to shine it. Said William H. Eisenman, secretary of the American Society for Metals: "It is easily the outstanding achievement of the decade in American foundry practice, probably an all-time high...