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...Meanwhile wartime traffic limps on carbon monoxide made in portable charcoal burners (TIME, Sept. 7). Last week a new ersatz fuel appeared in the news: liquefied methane gas in pressure tanks. This fuel is obtained by "bottling" natural gas in Italy, Hungary and Denmark, and also as a byproduct in the production of gasoline from coal. Recently Berlin Gasworks Co. prepared to extract methane from the city gas supply, hopes to convert 10% into motor fuel...
...cent vanadium. This concentration would be too low for practicable extraction, were it not for the fact that Anaconda Copper Co. is already processing over 100,000 tons of phosphates a year as fertilizer. From this tonnage some 200 to 250 tons of vanadium can be extracted as a byproduct. This is enough to supply about 25% of the annual U.S. demand...
...Like many another intellectual Dr. Joad felt that the greatest evils were social evils; rid the world of these and you get rid of most others. Social evils, he decided, were "the by-products of economic circumstances. . . . The inference was obvious: remove the circumstance . . . and you would abolish the byproduct evil." Now, like many another contrite intellectual, Dr. Joad can no longer believe this because "the evil in the world today is too widespread and obtrusive ... to enable us to take any longer so easy a view of its nature and origin. . . ." The end of Joad's confession...
This somewhat vague abstraction was the closest any Christian leader came last week to defining the missing faith without which victory cannot be won by the United Nations. It was easier to say what that faith was not. It was not a byproduct of social reorganization, nor could it spring from any political and economic program. Where it would spring from no one seemed to know. One churchman suggested a key to the riddle might lie in the words of Isaiah...
Even then Dr. Weizmann was experimenting with synthetic rubber: his acetone was a byproduct. Perhaps able, inventive Chaim Weizmann was the man to whom the U.S. could look for a way out of the Rubber Scandal...