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...Egyptian mosques preachers exhorted Moslems to prepare for a "Jihad" (a Holy War) to help the Allied cause. On the desert near Cairo, Indian Moslems labored with great care to lay out "prayer grounds" decorated with chromium-plated bottle caps, which for them carried a significance no less solemn than Westminster Abbey's altar...
...Patent Office in Washington remembers a story about a patent examiner who, in 1870, got discouraged. In 1870 there were no automobiles, airplanes, streamlined trains, steam turbines, oil-burning ships or Diesel engines; no movies, radio, television, electric refrigeration, vacuum cleaners, air conditioning; no rayon, nylon, Cellophane, stainless steel, chromium plate; no linotypes, color photography, wirephotos; not even a decent golf ball. Nevertheless the discouraged examiner looked around, decided that everything of importance had been invented, quit his job to look for something permanent...
...structures planned by most modernists have run not to flesh but bone. Pleased, therefore, were many lay visitors to "Versus" to note that the trend is away from chromium, away from bony angles, toward solid design and comfort...
Hell's Bells. "K-42-B" is a new alloy of iron, nickel, cobalt, chromium, manganese, silicon, carbon and titanium which maintains extreme hardness at high temperatures. Two bell-shaped castings, one of ordinary steel, one of K-42-B, were heated red-hot in a furnace. When the red-hot steel bell was struck with a hammer, it was too soft to respond with anything but a thud. But the red-hot K-42-B bell, when struck, rang out clearly, like a church bell on a sparkling winter day. The Westinghouse people call this exhibit "Hell...
...needs wheat. Great Britain, having cut Generalissimo Franco off from his German ore markets, will give him foreign exchange to feed his country from South America by buying Spanish copper, iron ore, mercury and lead. Yugoslavia now furnishes Germany with copper (from British-French-owned mines), Turkey might furnish chromium. The Allies will buy these countries' exports of these metals, also taking Yugoslavia's entire export prune crop, Turkey's entire surplus of figs, grapes and some tobacco, to sweeten the deals...