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...organic arsenic compound); 2) a ten-hour fever (106° F.) artificially induced by hot humid air while the patient lies in a coffinlike cabinet developed in part by General Motors Research Director Charles Kettering. By increasing the body's tolerance for arsenic, the fever enables doctors to compress the recently developed five-to ten-day treatment (without fever) into...
Some readers will think not. They can nevertheless read Mr. Churchill for its author's sense of history as a pageant of personalities, his eye for vivid, incongruous detail, his ability to compress masses of fact into a smooth ribbon of narrative. They can also read it to trace the development of Winston Churchill from the specious Victorian calm into which he was born, until, an old man, he put the will of a battered empire into four words: "We shall never surrender...
...rest of the program, drafted by the War Department's general staff, is not yet ready for unveiling. But it is certain that there will be a doubling of the $61,052,000,000 now appropriated for Army, Navy and Lend-Lease production, an attempt to compress the present 1942-43 program into a single year, an attempt to swing 50% of next year's national income to armaments instead of the 25% now contemplated...
There is plenty of scrap in the U.S.-abandoned automobiles rusting in wrecker graveyards, broken plows rusting in farmers' barns, old bedsprings and buckets lying on dumps at the edge of every small town. The problem is how to sort the scrap, compress it for shipping, move it to market...
...announced by President Charles Eugene Gallagher was a scheme that got the storage problem down to three dinky (57-foot) spherical tanks, the expense down to $1,000,000, the fire hazard to zero. The scheme: liquefaction. Against next winter's peak demand. East Ohio will next fall compress natural gas under 600 pounds of pressure, liquefy it by cooling at 250° F. below zero, pour it into insulated sphericals. In the three tanks, Utilitarian Gallagher will have the liquid equivalent of 150,000,000 cubic feet, compressed to 1/600 its gaseous volume. Heated by steam, the liquid...