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...products in this country have advanced in 50 years from an insignificant sum to more than $2,000,000,000 annually at present. . . . This is a chemical age, and we live, move and have our physical being as a result of chemical processes. Whether we travel on foot in chrome-tanned shoes and rayon stockings or roll to work on rubber wheels and concrete roads, we travel in comfort by chemical grace and goodwill. If we land in the hospital, the chemist has anticipated our coming. He is there before us with antiseptics, anesthetics and remedial agents for the relief...
...bicycle's wing skeleton is made of chrome molybdenum, that strong, light, beautifully tempered metal whose high value was discovered during the War, which has become important in airplane construction. This framework is covered with noninflammable celluloid upon the surface of which are distributed many "feathers" (strips of the molybdenum). The whole machine weighs 117 pounds, can be built...
...discovery of a flame hotter than hydrogen burning in oxygen (oxy-hydrogen). He made atomic hydrogen burn in an atmosphere of molecular hydrogen. His hydrogen blowtorch melted tungsten wire like an icicle, indicating that its heat was at least 7,000° F. Playing on a sheet of chrome steel the flame left molten pools behind it. Significance: steel girders could be welded silently instead of noisily riveted;* the welds would not (as when an oxyhydrogen flame is used) be oxidized and thus weakened, they would be annealing instead. This is important in joining aluminum, magnesium and other light metals...
...colors, for the physical endurance of the chemicals that compose them. Such a painter would say to the shopman who provides him with his materials: "The last indigo you sold me was vile. It will look like the devil in 500 years. Now I must have a chrome that will last a thousand; give me a wash that doomsday cannot crackE...
...have hitherto operated. Under the tutelage of Dillon, Read & Co., the industry is being reorganized as a single corporation, capitalized at roughly $50,000,000, and embracing eight constituent companies, chief among which are the Asbestos Corporation of Canada, the Maple Leaf Co. and the Black Lake Asbestos and Chrome Co., Ltd. The first of these above-named concerns produces a third of the Canadian output, or about 28% of the world output...