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...petroleum-butadiene plants need around 300 tons of steel and 89 units of compressor horsepower per 1,000 tons of butadiene capacity; alcohol-butadiene plants need about the same amount of steel, 169 units of compressor horsepower, plus 27 tons of copper-the scarcest metal of all-v. almost no copper for oil. In the face of this ruckus, the final decision of the rubbermen is that there is no sense in building any new raw-material capacity (even if it could be built fast) as long as petroleum and alcohol between them can fill this bill...
...Army's Wright Field: switch gear units; Langley Field: compressor units...
...with liquid hydrogen, but. cut the cost of making a quart from $50 to $5, the time from 24 hours to two hours or less. In the neighborhood of absolute zero, ordinary lubricants freeze hard as iron and Kapitza's problem was to find a lubricant for his compressor. He solved the problem by allowing a little helium vapor to squeeze through the piston clearance, so that the helium itself did the lubricating...
...possible causes of the blast, the fourth explosion in U. S. powder works within five weeks,* employes and officials guessed at spontaneous combustion or some fault with the compressor in the recovery building. But, mindful of disasters in U. S. munitions factories during World War I, agents of FBI, the Army and Navy, dug through the Hercules ruins looking for evidences of sabotage...
Because he was annoyed by the noise of WPA pneumatic drills near his Kansas City house, Dr. Logan Clendening ran amuck, smashed with an ax the valve and feed pipe of the air compressor supplying the drills, was jailed (TIME, Feb. 20). Last week he pleaded guilty to charges of destroying property and disturbing the peace, was fined...