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...Herald & Examiner: "Each pound of fat contains 4,500 ft. of blood vessels. So a person 30 lb. overweight has 25 mi. of extra blood vessels." Result of the 21st annual month-long fast during which Harry Wills, walnut-colored retired prizefighter, drank only 1½ to 2 gal. water daily (TIME, April 23) was a 40 lb. loss of weight (245 lb. to 205 lb.). On one occasion "I broke my fast. I was painting one of my apartments, and I was afraid the fumes might turn my stomach. So I drank a bottle of milk to settle...
...pointed out that ten years ago no one thought it possible to get bromine from the ocean on a commercial basis. Today his corporation, with Dow Chemical Co., operates a plant south of Wilmington, N. C. on the Cape Fear River which every day sucks in 30,000,000 gal. of sea water from which, with the aid of chlorine and sulphuric acid, it frees 15,000 lb. of bromine (worth 36 cents per lb.) for use in antiknock gasoline...
...costs about $1.50 to make a case (3 gal.) of raw whiskey. Barreling, bottling, casing and four years' storage are estimated to bring the cost up to about $7.50 per case. Taxes of about $11 make it $18.50. Wholesalers and retailers must cover operating expenses and license fees, but what happens is that every one along the line from distiller through middleman to retailer figures his profits not on whiskey costs alone but on cost plus taxes doubled and redoubled...
Except to motorists, it was not news when the service stations around Los Angeles year ago started a price war which brought gasoline down to 7½? per gal. As common to the industry as red-handled pumps, the price slashing is still going on. But it was news indeed last week when a Federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted and ordered arrested the top executives in two of the biggest oil companies on the Pacific Coast for aiding and abetting the price war and for violating the Oil Code...
First of six new "clippers"' ordered by Pan American Airways, the 8-42 is a duralumin flying boat with four cowled engines set into the leading edge of its single wing. Its wingspan is 114 ft. 2 in., its length 76 ft. Tanks in the wings carry 1.250 gal. of fuel. With tanks full, a crew of five, 32 passengers, 1,000 Ib. of mail, the 8-42 will weigh 19 tons...