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...told Sacramento reporters that after six years of experiment he had perfected a modern method of making champagne from oranges. To the juice of oranges and grapefruit he adds distilled water, dextrose and yeast. The mixture is then slowly drawn through a series of five glass-lined, airtight, chromium-fitted 200-gal. tanks. By the time the juice reaches the last tank, 75% of the sugar has been converted into alcohol. This takes ten days...
...most recent, as well as the fanciest, published appraisal of Winchell was written for this month's Cosmopolitan by Dorothy Kilgallen, who concludes: "He is a streamlined Aesop spinning the chromium fables of night-time Manhattan, a grey young recording angel writing the fickle legends of Broadway-on a small typewriter, with two fingers...
Sister Mary persuaded her superiors to provide the money for a pendulum to occupy nine stories in the unused shaft. The chromium-plated bob weighs 30 pounds, makes one back-&-forth oscillation through an arc of about six feet every twelve seconds. At the centre of the swing, the bob passes close to a waxed indicator table, and by means of a high voltage transformer an electric spark is passed from the bob to the wax, makes a mark showing the amount of rotation every hour-or oftener if desired for demonstration purposes. To start the pendulum going, without torque...
...fifty-five metallic groups, only fifteen have been extensively utilized utilized. From ancient times, gold, silver, Iron, copper, tin, zinc, lead, and mercury have been used. And within recent years the aluminum, antimony, bismuth, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, and nickel groups have also found uses...
...Corporation's Papoose at $295. Sleeping four the 1,250-lb. two-wheeler has stove, heater, icebox and running water. Top price was $1,580 for the generator-equipped Martin EckO with electric refrigeration, ice cubes, shower, hot and cold running water. Refinements in some 1937 trailers include: chromium-plated bath tubs; porcelain vapor stoves; writing desks; radios; roomy wardrobes; fireplaces. But a trailer is still a trailer, confined by restrictions of various states to a maximum length of about 22 ft., width and height around 7 ft. A "two-room cottage" and a "five-room efficiency" trailer...