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...disturbed area centered in South Wales, spread into North Wales, England's Durham, Scotland. Basic causes of the strike lay in the uneconomic condition of British coal mining, with its cumulative bitterness between miners and mineowners. The mines are now under Government control, but the miners' discontent remains unchanged. Better off than they were before the war, they are determined not to lose what they have gained-and in the Government's latest move they thought they saw a threat...
...principle on which the device is based was discovered by a Cheadle partner named H. L. Durham, now retired. Puget Sound fishermen could not understand why their boats' propellers and metal rudderposts wore out so fast in the water. Durham thought it might be accounted for by electrolysis (the process by which an electric current in a liquid transfers metal from positive to negative poles...
Tests proved Durham right. He further found that the rotation of a ship's engines sets up a weak electric current, which charges a ship's metal. In salt sea water, which is an excellent electrolytic bath, the metal is swiftly eaten away. Durham had no idea where the metal went, but he hit on a simple way to stop it: suspending in the water another metal higher in the electrolytic scale. Thus, when he installed a piece of zinc, electrically wired to the ship, near a bronze propeller, the propeller picked up zinc deposits instead of losing...
...Durham & Cheadle then developed a zinc alloy for the job (pure zinc soon gets coated with an oxide that interferes with electrolysis), and adapted their discovery to protect condensers, hulls, bulkheads, ballast tanks, etc. The device has already worked well on dozens of ships. So far as condensers, specifically, are concerned, Cheadle figures that his electrolysis eliminator doubles or triples normal life...
...there art-edited the Princeton Tiger. He sold his first drawings to Judge, College Humor and the old Life. After college he studied at Manhattan's famed Art Students League under Thomas Hart Benton. Says Darrow of this training: "He taught me how to roll Bull Durham cigarets." Darrow's first New Yorker appearance was a study of two girl nudists admiring a male fellow nudist: "Last night I saw him in a blue serge suit. Zowie...