Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wheel (United Artists) is a racing-car movie, and its cyclonic energy and pace are likely to leave audiences with dust in their eyes. As a chesty, first-year driver, Mickey Rooney burns up the racing circuit from Culver City to Indianapolis. Gripping the steering wheel with a fearful, downward thrust as though trying to keep the car on the ground, he never drives a dull race. He always wins, crashes, hurtles the wall, or narrowly misses burning to death. The movie falls short of the 1932 speedway saga called The Crowd Roars. But obstreperous acting, grease-textured photography...
...years Mississippi Novelist William Faulkner has published 18 books. Some of them (The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Intruder in the Dust) are among the best in 20th Century U.S. fiction; others, as might be expected from a man producing at Faulkner's rate, are inferior and slapdash. In the latter group is Knight's Gambit, a collection of six stories (a couple of them written for the Satevepost) more or less conforming to detective-story formulas...
When Corn Products Refining Co. set out to build a new plant at Corpus Christi, Texas two years ago, it wanted to find some new solutions to the old problems which have always plagued the grain-processing industry-explosive dust and dangerous fumes. It gave the job to Cleveland's H. K. Ferguson Co., builder of the thermal diffusion unit* of the Oak Ridge atom bomb plant. Ferguson engineers decided that the best way to eliminate dangerous working conditions within enclosed spaces was to build a plant without walls...
...steep house," in which grain is placed in large wooden tanks for treatment in a dilute sulphuric acid solution. The sea breeze keeps the steep house clear of choking sulphur fumes. The breeze also sweeps clean the floor under the silo conveyor belt, usually a collection spot for explosive dust...
Several years ago, Robert Pinkerton II,* head of the same Pinkerton National Detective Agency which plodded patiently (but unsuccessfully) along in Jesse James's dust for 16 years, decided that he had had enough. The bold bandit who stared grimly out of the agency's secret files was no kin to the song-and-celluloid desperado whom everybody knew. Pinkerton decided to open the files and let the world see what its hero looked like all dressed up in his police record...