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...develop a beryllium alloy which is not brittle. While most aluminum-beryllium alloys will stand tensile (pulling) stresses of around 70,000 Ib. per square inch, they will support only slight bending stresses. Thin sheets of a 70-30 beryllium-alu-minum alloy will break like stiff cardboard...
Author Jacques Deval, 37, Parisian, is in Hollywood superintending French talkies for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This is his third trip to the U. S. Of himself, he-says: "I am not a humorist. I am a merry pessimist." He has written several plays, of which one, Her Cardboard Lover, has been produced...
...Twenty years ago, July 4 was ushered in with 18-in. cannoncrackers which sounded like quarry blasts. These, largest ever made. were constructed with a heavy cardboard case two-thirds filled with saltpetre, carbon and sulphur. In those days, long before and after July 4 fireworkmen were billed like vaudeville teams about the country, the wonders of pyrotechny were displayed to smalltown folk in parks and pastures. Greatest spectacle of these traveling companies was "The Last Days of Pompeii," a morality pageant on a 576-ft. canvas topped by a 70-ft. Vesuvius. Climax of the spectacle came when...
Roman Candles. Cardboard tubes are packed in alternate layers with slow-burning powder, quick-burning powder and pressed discs of quick-burning chemicals containing a coloring salt. When lighted the slow-burning powder spews, finally reaches the disc. When this takes fire it ignites the quick-burning powder which makes a mild explosion, expels the flaming disc...
further particulars, should mail their completed designs (colored, drawn to scale, mounted on heavy cardboard), to the Committee of Twenty on Street and Outdoor Cleanliness, No. 2 E. 103rd St., New York City...