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...Conditioned Paint. A bright white paint that substantially reduces the temperature of metal and asphalt roofs in hot weather is being marketed by Coating Laboratories, Inc., of Tulsa. "Koolcote," which consists of four special pigments mixed with "activated" plastic, has kept a metal tank at a temperature of 99½° in tests during 100½° outside temperatures (v. 143° for a tank not Koolcoted). Price: about 6? per sq. ft. for steel surfaces, $150 for the average roof...
...heat, Iran's worst in 60 years, came in with a terrible wind called "sharji." Soon the asphalt of the sidewalks was melting in the sun. In Abadan and Khorramshahr, all shops closed down, and the oil company's air-conditioning system would not work because the water warmed too quickly in the condenser. Abadan's two ice plants (capacity: 70 tons a day) could not meet the demand as smugglers shipped heavy loads out to oil-rich Kuwait and Qatar. In ten days, Iran's heat wave killed 158 people...
Typical contraband seized by the British last month: auto clutch plates hidden under a load of fish, 2,712 Ibs. of scrap iron disguised as ballast, 82 tons of asphalt passing as dirty, but legal, coal tar. The British concede that about 200 tons of merchandise - about 1,000th of Hong Kong's intake-gets across to the Communists every week. Even with what goes in to Macao and Lap Sap Mei, it is not enough for the building of industrial China. Only peace and a resumption of normal trade would do that...
...cork floor is being replaced with asphalt. This is in preparation for the installation of stacks on the level...
...Career. The storm calmed after one of the most famed U.S. Jewish families, the Guggenheims, hired him to boss their floundering, money-losing Barber Asphalt Corp. Rieber sold off its uneconomic properties (including Trinidad's asphalt lake), explored other properties for oil, bought tankers, built the present Barber Oil Corp. Barber stock, which sold for $6-$7 a share when he took over, now sells for the equivalent of $113.50 (counting a split). On $12.1 million sales last year, Rieber's managerial sorcery netted $3,200,000 profits after taxes...