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...Colorless, odorless, non-inflammable helium gas, with 92% of hydrogen's lifting power, is so far produced in large commercial quantities only at the 18-acre Government plant at Soncy, seven miles from Amarillo, Tex. There by a complicated process of washing, cooling, and separation it is extracted from the natural gas underlying that area. Present production is about 5,000,000 cubic feet out of a 24,000,000 cubic foot annual capacity-with reserves estimated at enough for the next 5,000 years. Two other small plants in the U. S. at Dexter, Kans. and Thatcher, Colo...
...Federal Council of Churches, most sonorous mouthpiece of U. S. Protestantism, is fond of giving its constituent churches prayers, litanies, orders of worship, to enrich evangelical services, which are often stereotyped and colorless. Lately the Federal Council's Committee on Worship urged Evangelicals to observe the feasts of the Christian Year more fully, to try out a new season called Kingdom-tide (after Trinity Sunday), representing the concept of the Church in action. Last fortnight the Federal Council's Department of Race Relations issued a "prayer of penitence" for churches to employ when they feel conscious...
...print, the news photographer is Public Pain in the Neck No. 1; to others he is the symbol of opportunity. His body belongs to the city editor, he has no soul, and his life is lived between the pulmotor and Paradise. But without him all news would be colorless and the newspaper just a broad expanse of funereal type...
...Fusion Party was strictly an affair of convenience. No happier was Tammany, which, having provoked a revolt among Democrats outside Manhattan by running fumbling anti-New Deal Senator Royal S. Copeland in both the Republican and Democratic primaries, had almost as little stake in clean-cut but colorless Democratic Candidate Jeremiah T. Mahoney as it had in Fusionist LaGuardia...
Delacroix, whom Renoir called the greatest artist of the French school, died in 1863 after having fought for a lifetime against the flawless but colorless classicism upheld by his great contemporary, Ingres. His three most important mural jobs, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Church of St. Sulpice and the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre, are among the few French masterpieces in this medium. With the steady growth of his influence, other paintings by him have been advanced until they now occupy a third of "the line," or tier of honor, in the gallery...