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...General Motors reports a new process that reduces SO2 emissions by 90%. Tested successfully for 14 months in a pilot installation at the Chevrolet plant in Parma, Ohio, GM's process starts with a trap to take dust particles out of coal smoke. Then the gases are routed into a device called a scrubber, where they bubble through a caustic-soda solution; chemical reaction between the SO2 and the soda produces two salts, sodium sulfite and sodium sulfate, that are pumped from the scrubber in waste liquids into tanks. There, lime and calcium carbonate are added. The resulting calcium...
...expanding its system to serve the entire Chevrolet-Parma plant. That will cost $3,000,000. But the process will pay for itself by allowing GM-or any other industrial user-to burn the cheapest and most abundant of all fuels: high-sulfur coal...
Rural towns are suddenly booming. In Devils Lake, N. Dak., sales have doubled at Bill Bergstrom's Lake Chevrolet, the Western State Bank has a record $8,000,000 in deposits, and the local John Deere dealer cannot keep up with new orders. Perhaps the busiest man in town is Accountant Curtis Brekke, who does the federal tax returns of about 1,000 wheat farmers. This year his clients are obsessed with finding ways to spread out their ample earnings for tax purposes. "For all the years they never had the big money, they didn't pay much...
Jenkins' 1973 Chevrolet Vega does not look much different from the one that Mom drives to the supermarket, except for the hood-mounted air scoop and an outrigger in back to keep the front of the car from rising too high on takeoff. But Jenkins and his crew of six mechanics make sure that the resemblance is only paint-deep. To prepare the car for its ordeals, the team marinates its body in an acid bath to eat away 120 Ibs. of excess weight. The hood and rear deck are replaced with lightweight Fiberglas panels. His $70,000 engine...
...Sills' Second City after marrying one of its actors, Richard Schaal. Along the way she supported herself by appearing in industrial shows introducing new products to out-of-town distributors. Her most memorable roles: a stripteaser in a peanut-butter show, and a dancer who pirouetted around a Chevrolet singing, "The mighty voice of Chevrolet rings out across the land...