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...quiet little Pasadena, Calif, one day last week a blast almost materialized that would have shaken the sober townfolk out of their skins. Two blocks from Pasadena's busiest corner, Crown City Plating Co. electroplates chromium, gold, brass, silver, copper. A swart little man named Wallace Foreman was mixing sulphuric acid and glycerin to make an electrolyte for plating. Already in the tank were 75 gal. of acid and 2 gal. of glycerin. Thinking to add more acid, Wallace Foreman picked up a 3-gal. container, dumped in the contents. Unluckily the container held not sulphuric but nitric acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mixer's Mix-up | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

...inlet of the Potomac River opposite Washington, Raymond Ickes, son of the Secretary of the Interior, worked as foreman on a CCC project improving a wild duck pond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 6, 1934 | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

...team will try to prove to M.I.T. that they have completely recovered from the 6-3 drubbing which Andover dealt them Wednesday. Jimmy Fuld, number one man, will be striving once again to build up a string of triumphs which will compare with the one snapped so unexpectedly by Foreman of Andover last Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENNIS TEAM CLASHES WITH PRINCTON SQUAD | 5/11/1934 | See Source »

Completely outclassed in both the singles and doubles matches, the Freshman tennis team was toppled from its undefeated pinnacle yesterday, when the Andover team drubbed them 6-3. Jimmy Fuld, Freshman star, received a severe jolt, as Foreman of Andover unexpectedly snapped his growing undefeated streak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Netmen Blank Brown As They Continue on Streak | 5/10/1934 | See Source »

...factory in the U. S. Northwest. First part gives the slowly piling-up events of one night. The trouble started when the lights in the factory went out. The men's pay had been cut again & again. They were driven nearly frantic by the yapping inconsistency of the foreman, Carl, a self-styled efficiency expert who understood practically nothing of the factory's detail but who had been recently imported to cut costs, rush orders through. When the lights went out and the machinery stopped, Carl blamed his chief enemy, Hagen, a good workman of 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Man | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

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