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...kitchen at Kenvil recently went a U. S. Government order for $2,000,000 worth of explosives, and an order from Britain. One dav last week, in a solvents recovery building, something went wrong with the brew. A small explosion made employes in the other 49 buildings take alarm. Flames shot from the windows of the recovery house. Before men could let go their held breath, 200,000 pounds of smokeless powder went up in a hell's delight of flame and thunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Hell's Kitchen | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...chief headaches of the natural gas industry is the problem of balancing summer & winter load. Enough natural gas to heat a city's homes is far too much to brew its summer tea. Thus most pipe lines from the gas fields have either too much capacity for most efficient operations, or too little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Liquid Gas | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

They minced the virus-choked lungs of mice infected with flu, made a brew so powerful that it killed healthy mice even if diluted a million times. But when a suspension of virus was mixed with equal amounts of hand-soap or a fatty acid solution, allowed to stand for 90 minutes, and injected into scores of normal mice, none of them came down with flu. In fact, said the scientists, once vaccinated, the mice easily withstood huge doses of straight virus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Soap and Flu | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...Thank God we're getting out of the fried-chicken belt." Next morning Fort Worth and Dallas, where a posse of Garnerites hauled him off to breakfast: Cactus Valley grapefruit, Red River County farm eggs, Blossom Prairie smoked sausage, Garner Camp biscuits, Uvalde honey, Chuck Wagon brew. Here Jim Farley hinted he was willing to be a Vice-Presidential candidate on a Garner ticket (in Tennessee it had been Hull). As he often does, he held a press conference in a barber shop: he is the only man in the U. S. who can talk while a barber shaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Farley Takes a Trip | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

After the first outburst, the volcano calmed down. But in Mauna Loa's cauldron, Pele's brew continued to boil and bubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Mauna Loa Erupts | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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