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Ever since housewives started dunking the family's dirty clothes and dishes in synthetic detergents, the nation's sewers have been swamped by an expanding flow of foam. Down the drainpipe, on through the sewage-disposal plant, the synthetic cleaners keep right on bubbling until contaminated rivers froth like lager beer. No matter what tricks they have tried, sanitary engineers have had small success in keeping the troublesome bubbles down. Egyptian-born Chemical Engineer Ibrahim Abdulla Eldib now insists that the best solution is to help the stuff foam...
...loving and a water-hating end. When the molecules are dissolved in water, their water-hating ends grab firmly at any grease that is present. This accounts for the detergents' cleansing ability. They also grab at water-air surfaces, which is what makes them collect bubbles and form foam...
...detergent with it and also other organic contaminants that may be in the sewage. The bubbles soon collapse, and the detergent collects in a small amount of liquid that is easily treated and disposed of. It can be dumped into any river without causing it to foam. After chlorination, says Engineer Eldib, it may even be pure enough for drinking. Short of selling housewives on the idea of returning to old-fashioned cleansers. Dr. Eldib's bubbles seem the best way yet devised for dealing with bubbly detergents...
...Rosebud Salve to neighboring farmers. In the 35 years since, Dumas Milner has never stopped selling, and last week he did his biggest buying and selling yet. Breaking off the biggest single chunk of his $60 million Southern empire, Milner swapped his thriving household-products business (Perma Starch, Mystic Foam Cleaner, Pine-Sol) with American Cyanamid for $11 million in Cyanamid stock. At the same time, he sold off a parcel of Southern hotels and motels for $10 million in cash...
Dribbles appear where they make sense--as foam in a rough surf, or as leaves or moss on birch trees. Scratches too fit in as the birches' smaller branches and twigs. Though frequently each spot of paint is applied with a certain amount of grossness, the composite usually reveals striking unity and conveys a powerful impression...