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...Pont Co. immediately christened their product Duprene, ordered a plant built at Deepwater, N. J. to manufacture rt commercially. Since it needs only acetylene, salt and water, it will not be expensive to make. Duprene looks like natural rubber, shows the same molecular makeup in xray, but is denser, more resistant to water absorption, to attacks by ozone, oxygen and other chemicals, to swelling by gasoline & kerosene. It is vulcanized by heat alone, without sulphur. At high temperatures it hardens slowly. Its powers of resistance are expected to give it many commercial uses now denied to rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Duprene | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

Only Alabama ($1,284) is poorer in per capita wealth than Mississippi ($1,376). Only South Carolina (55%) has a denser Negro population than Mississippi (52%). Only Louisiana and South Carolina are more illiterate. Mississippi has the highest birth rate, lowest death rate in the South. It was the first state of the Union to ratify the 18th Amendment. It is cursed with the most virulent form of partisan Democratic politics. Its last great man: John Sharp Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hey, Bilbo! | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...Sound is a series of waves. The waves need something to travel in. In general, the denser the medium the better sound gets through. Water is a better sound conductor than air. Steel is better than water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dickens Operetta | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...vein of dictatorship-this time with a salt-sea flavor. In receiving the oaths of his two military dictators (the late General Primo de Rivera and his successor General Berenguer), blue-jawed Alfonso always wore the uniform of a field marshal. Smart King. Soon all around King Alfonso rose, denser than usual, the heady perfume of praise. All his courtiers told His Majesty that he had just played superlatively well a most difficult hand at statecraft, finessing the Republican parties, easing out that old rebel Jose Sanchez Guerra whom he had "cleverly" called as Prime Minister (TIME, Feb. 23), consolidating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: New Cabinet | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...Queen Mary were said, on the high authority of a scullery maid, to be eating savory kippers. About 9 a. m. the patient, patriotic crowd learned that "the King is examining congratulatory telegrams and cablegrams from all over the world"?this from an important, reliable equerry. Denser and denser grew the crowd, but with no ill-mannered clamor for Their Majesties to show themselves at a window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Rooks, King & Tote | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

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