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...automobile engines in warm climates in summer," observed Robert Thompson Haslam, vice president of Standard Oil Development Co. He foresees industrial alcohol made from waste refinery gases. One of the largest current uses for these gases is in the manufacture of hydrogen. Cottonseed Gasoline. Cottonseed makes good hog and cow food and palatable cooking oil. If the oil is fed into a metal coil at 900° F. and 150 Ib. per sq. in. pressure, it breaks down into gasoline. Cottonseed

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists at New Orleans | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...OPINION ABOUT THE COW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Opinion | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...cow is a mammal and tamed; she has six sides, right, left, front, back, top and bottom. At the back end, there is a tail from which hangs a plume with which she drives off the flies so that they cannot fall in the milk. The head has for its aim to have horns and that the mouth can be somewhere. The horns are there for horning, the mouth for chewing a cud. Under the cow hangs the milk and it is arranged to be milked. When people milk, the milk comes and there is never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Opinion | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...cow has a good odor, one can smell her from far away; it is for this reason that there is fresh air out in the country. The mister cow is called a beef; he is not a mammal. The cow does not eat much, but what she eats, she eats it twice, that is why she has always enough. When she is hungry she chews a cud and when she does not say anything, that is that her stomach is full of food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Opinion | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...that suckled those ungrateful brats. Her dress is torn, her hair is mussed, and sweat stands on her cheeks, "wrinkled deep in time". But there is a red in her lips, a sparkle in her eyes, and her breath is as sweet as the breath of an old mooly cow. She holds her latest baby under the crook of her arm, and hustles along.--Quoted by Dean Mendell in an address printed in the Yale Alumni Weekly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mother Yale Hustles Along | 3/4/1932 | See Source »

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