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...hanging (to obtain a few very choice steaks) requires four to eight weeks under expensive cold-storage conditions. In the Mellon-Kroger process it is done in a few days at a temperature of 60°, a relative humidity of 90%. Molds and bacteria, which would spoil such warm, damp meat if left to themselves, are put out of action by ultraviolet light from a Westinghouse lamp...
...Powder Fryeburg, Me. Fair Good 46 Wet Greenfield, Mass. Fair Poor 5 Soft Intervale, N.H. Fair Good 36 Powder Jackson, N.H. Fair Good 35 Powder Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Fair Fair 31 Frozen granular Lancaster, N.H. Fair Fair 24 1 new wet Lincoln, N.H. Fair Good 38 3 damp over 35 powder Littleton, N.H. Fair Good 14 10 Powder Monadnock Region, N.H. Fair Poor 15 Wet Newfound Region, N.H. Fair Good 26 2 new light snow North Conway, N.H. Fair Good 36 Powder North Woodstock, N.H. Fair Good Deep powder, break, base Pinkham Notch N.H. Fair Good 65 Powder Plymouth...
...name, dons a white soutane. The Cardinals pay him homage. All the baldachins except that of the new Pontiff are folded back to the walls. To show the crowds outside that "a Pope has been made," the ballots, which previously have been burned in the conclave stove with damp straw (to send up black smoke), are this time burned alone, and a thin wisp of white signals from the chapel chimney...
...stable of stately Daimlers used by Britain's King-Emperor was added last week a new car, prescribed by his physicians as a precaution against colds on State drives in England's damp winter weather. The new, maroon-bodied limousine has expansive glass windows, a glass roof panel, so that, whether the King's subjects are cheering from the curb or hanging out of windows, they can see him and his family...
...paint" resting gingerly on the walls of some stairway. There surges within most individuals an irresistible impulse either to carry off the placard and relax it against the faucet of a washbowl, or else refuse to take the painter at his word and run a testing finger along the damp surface until the amount of paint collected on the digit impedes further progress. The result is probably worse than no sign at all, in which case bitter experience with new coats would soon deaden curiosity and remove all friction between the wall...