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announced development of a process by which it expected to make butadiene rub ber from butane for only 20? a pound...
...STAR OF SATAN-Georges Ber-nanos-Macmlllan...
Mass production of automobiles has produced "A typical American mass production of head injuries." Thus famed Chicago Surgeon Percival Bailey wrote in an introduction to Diagnosis and Treatment of Head Injuries, by Drs. Sidney William Gross & William Ehrlich (Hoe-ber; $5), published last week. Terse and clear, the handbook tells general practitioners as well as surgeons exactly what to do with the estimated 80,000 banged heads they meet every year. Practical tips: ¶ The human skull, an average of one-fifth of an inch thick, is so elastic that often a heavy blow from a blunt instrument only dents...
...Maryland's Edgewood Arsenal it asked U. S. manufacturers to bid on a new assembly plant to turn out masks for Army use. Winners of three contracts were not among the nine U. S. commercial gas-mask makers. They were Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Firestone Tire & Rub ber Co., and Johnson & Johnson, biggest U. S. surgical-dressing maker...
...that in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, U. S. agricultural imports increased and exports decreased over preceding years. Broken down, this is found: total increase in imports between July 1934 and July 1937 was $699,000,000. Of this, $252,000,000 was in tea, coffee, rub ber, silk, bananas and other items noncompetitive with U. S. products; $141,000,000 was in imports required to supplement items affected by the 1935-36 drought-corn, wheat, barley, fodder, butter, etc. But these imports, Mr. Hull can show conclusively, did not displace U. S. farm products; they supplemented...