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...different man: "In the five hours he had grown tired. As his speech went on his voice seemed to lose its fire. . . . In the final sentences his voice dropped and I could not hear his last three words. But I could see then that the steam in the old boiler chugging along for ten years had taken its toll of rust...
...Last week the Brooklyn plant of Fanny Farmer Candy Shops was told to convert to coal. The plant now uses two boilers fired by oil, will have to run at least one while converting. The hitch: it must get an OPA permit for enough oil to run one boiler for 60 days...
...boardroom, stopping at the landing to recover breath so that he might make a lordly entrance as of old." He got out his final version of A Vision; his infinitely re-revised Collected Poems; his last book of verse (New Poems); his violent prose work On the Boiler, with its animadversions, scornfully antidemocratic as always, on popular education. Rilke's ideas on death annoyed out of him the stanza which was to close his epitaph...
Standard's new catalytic cracking plant was dedicated last week with bunting, a band and speeches in Standard's vast and drafty old boiler shop at Bayway, N.J. Even as Standard's new president, Ralph W. Gallagher, spoke, the six-million-dollar "cat cracker" was running full blast, spewing forth a censored quantity of the basic ingredients for high-octane gasoline, TNT and synthetic rubber...
Target: Locomotives. To hit at this soft spot, Allied fighter planes are now concentrating on German locomotives in western Europe. With armor-piercing slugs in their cannon they aim to blow up boilers (repairing a boiler takes at least half as long as constructing a new locomotive, thus pays dividends in lost man-hours as well as destruction). The Allied bag now averages 20 successful destructions each week. German concern is shown by reports that armor-plated locomotives are planned; anti-aircraft guns are already being mounted on flatcars behind the tenders...