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Common practice has been to deposit a small amount of mercury in each tube from a mechanical "eye-dropper," which was not very precise. Insufficient mercury, Cox explained, makes the light slump quickly; too much mercury produces blotches and discoloration. Hygrade's new process seals the mercury in long sections of thin nickel tubing, feeds the tubing into a precision machine which nips off "mercury bombs" of specified length, carries the "bombs" under a magnetic device which picks out of line and discards any capsule holding even 1/1,000 gram less than the amount required...
Valuables. In Atlanta, a society matron bought a spare girdle, hustled it to the bank and filed it away in a safety deposit vault for future reference. In Van Nuys, Calif., somebody made off with a stagecoach...
...Crowley was eminent in Wisconsin church and business circles. Pope Pius XI decorated him with the Order of St. Gregory for his services. He was president of the Bank of Wisconsin, sponsored legislation to strengthen the State's banking system. Mr. Roosevelt made him chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...
With construction still in progress, the basement of the deposit library has been given over to the U. S. O. to store books gathered in the "V" Book Drive which have been arriving at the rate of more than a thousand...
Seriously considered by Metropolitan Boston librarians three years ago, the New England Deposit Library was erected with funds supplied by the University which will be repaid by the corporation which is now the nominal owner, over a long-term period...