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...roomy back seats. By widening rear axles, manufacturers have obviated the unsightly overhung bodies of past years. Very few open cars are now made. The closed bodies are slung very low. Triplex and Duplex safety glass appear in almost every expensive car and in the windshields of cheaper makes. Chromium, non-tarnishing metal, is used almost universally in lamp rims, hub caps, door handles, bumpers and other trimmings. Body colors are subdued, more blacks appearing than for several years...
That the U. S. is "self-sustaining" in most respects but depends almost entirely upon other countries for chromium, manganese, tungsten, nickel, tin, mercury, hemp, rubber, nitrates, coffee, potash...
Heating Appliances. Copper wire carries electric energy with very little wastage. A wire made of chromium-nickel or similar alloys, on the other hand, resists the passage of electricity and gets hot. Upon this fact were created the many heating devices displayed at the show: Flat Irons Hot Pads Manglers Toasters Grills Percolators Stoves Waffle Iron- Heaters Curling Irons Radiators Sterilizers and a new device for pressing trousers...
Both elements occur in the so-called Mangan group of inorganic earth elements (i. e. manganese, chromium) and constitute about a billionth part of the earth's crust. Inert, their commercial and scientific value is unknown, probably small...
...spoon's owner, an engineer of the Chemical Treatment Co., felt his heart cockles glow warmly when he reopened his summer home recently and found this state of affairs. He had covered that spoon with "Crodon," a new alloy containing chromium (next to diamond, the hardest of all substances), which had been perfected for electroplating purposes by Prof. Colin G. Fink of Columbia University and some associates, of whom the spoon's owner...