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...this nut dish is an attractive piece for any living or dining room. It will surely lend an air of graciousness to the surroundings and at the same time is as an attractive a gift as can be found anywhere. It comes with four nut picks and a nut cracker, and the complete set goes for only $1.75 at The COOP in Harvard Square...
...project ever undertaken by an American coop. To help ease the fertilizer shortage, C.C.A. will build a $16 million nitrogen plant at Lawrence, Kans. with $6,000,000 borrowed from C.C.A. members and the rest from the RFC. C.C.A. will also build a 5,000-barrel-a-day catalytic cracker for its refinery at Phillipsburg, Kans., open $1,000,000 worth of lumber kilns at its mill in Swisshome...
...hunches, but the cold facts of the world demand for oil are behind Gulf's expansion. Swensrud, who has already built the world's largest "cat" (catalytic) cracker at Gulf's main refinery at Port Arthur, Texas, will now build a still bigger one (63,000 bbls. a day) at Gulf's Philadelphia refinery. He will also build the world's biggest (125,000 bbls. per day) atmospheric and vacuum crude-oil "topping" unit (which skims off the lighter components of crude). The result will boost the military's supply of high-octane gasoline...
...that he expects to be the next Prime Minister. The "engineers" on his "temporary board of directors" last week included a mechanical engineer with no oil background, a dairy expert. Makki's chief technical consultant is a young geologist who admitted he didn't know a catalytic cracker from a fractionating tower (Abadan has both...
...Whip-Cracker. Almond (pronounced All-mond) is a whip-cracking officer. He never compromises with discipline, drives himself hard and his subordinates only a shade less hard. To some he seems an insufferable martinet. Those who know him best say his professional manner, at times as tough as armor plate, is only the protective covering for a courtly, convivial, even sentimental off-duty personality...