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...both W. N. U. and A. P. A. qualifies as No. 1 in the rural press. Last week it seemed that the man would be 57-year-old John Holliday Perry. Already president of A. P. A., which at one time competed with W. N. U. in selling feature boiler plate, Mr. Perry has long sought control of W. N. U. Two years ago, he barely missed it when W. N. U. called off a plan to throw itself into 77-B bankruptcy to scale down interest payments (TIME, April 27, 1936). Last month, he bought enough voting trust certificates...
...Yorker fulminated tiredly, but the first person to do anything about the plates was a 42-year-old unemployed boiler mechanic of White Plains, one Martin McBohin, a Wartime Marine sergeant. Last week Martin McBohin stuck adhesive tape over the offensive lettering and was promptly arrested for defacing a license plate. Sure that he was standing on his rights, Objector McBohin, up for trial this week, roundly declared: "I'm prepared to appeal the case to the highest court." Indignantly he added: "Next thing you know the State will compel us to advertise someone's corn flakes." More...
...have to bring no hard times to Skirthorpe. . . . This is the exporting center. . . ." Herrie's part in the strike ended when he was badly injured in a cave-in while stealing coal. Recovered, he joined his blacklisted friend Tawpun as a riveter in a neighboring city's boiler works...
...Class 1 repair is a new boiler. Class 2 is a new firebox. Class 3 are the more frequent general repairs to machinery, firebox, tires or flues...
...Burned under a steam boiler, coke, coal or natural gas produces flue gases which are largely carbon dioxide. These are purified, piped into steel cylinders weighing 20 to 50 lb. Under pressure of 1,400 lb. per sq. in., the gas liquefies, forms the product known as liquid carbonic...