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...past three years Treasury Department chemists-whose duty it was to denature tax-free industrial alcohol long before Prohibition-have been busy seeking a substitute for wood alcohol. Alco-tate, discovered by no one man, is a by-product of cracked California petroleum. Its formula is a Treasury secret. But Director Doran is confident that it can not be precipitated from or distilled out of grain alcohol. About Jan. 1 it will go into...
...others are specific. Mr. Replogle says practically all English blast furnaces are obsolete and should be scrapped, supplanted by modern furnaces of 1,000 tons a day capacity. The present average capacity of British blast furnaces is a paltry 120 tons. The largest type of Koppers or other by-product coke ovens are a necessity. Immediate attention should be given to semi-finished products, now com posing 60% of Britain's steel imports. A main plant should be located on seaboard...
Hail is a by-product of thunderstorms only. Thunderstorms are tornadoes with horizontal instead of vertical axes. Hail is caused by the up currents of the storm carrying moisture particles to an altitude where they will freeze. As they drop back toward earth the fountainhead of the wind will carry them upward again, add more snow and ice to their structure. Their size is limited only by the power of the wind to carry them upward on successive trips...
French Threat. Antitariff feeling against the U. S. ran particularly high in France. There U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge who as a New Jersey Senator had consistently voted for all maximum duties, got a bitter taste of the foreign by-product of his party's tariff policy. Last week at a Chamber of Commerce dinner in the Roubaix-Tourcoing woolen district, Ambassador Edge heard this direct threat from a potent French speaker: "European nations stand together on one point-if the United States closes her markets, these countries will consider themselves justified in following the same steps...
Generally predicted last week: a Hoover veto for the new bill. Said President Hoover in his December message to Congress: "I do not favor the operation by the Government of either power or manufacturing business, except as an unavoidable by-product of some other major public enterprise...