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...insects, as Naturalist Julian Huxley explains, microscopic air tubes carry oxygen "directly to and from the tissues instead of using dual mechanisms of lungs and blood stream. Laws of gaseous diffusion are such that [this system] is extremely efficient for very small animals, but becomes rapidly less efficient with increase of size, until it ceases to be of use at a bulk below that of a house mouse. [So] no insect has become moderately large by vertebrate standards or moderately intelligent." If the termite had a proper trachea, man might never have appeared on earth...
Postponed until the end of the war is development of the newest and most novel method of fertilizing with nitrogen: use of gaseous ammonia (NH3) - a discovery of Shell Chemical Co. The gas is allowed to escape from steel cylinders into irrigation waters, where it dissolves and is carried into every part of California or chards, rice fields, truck farms. These un usual amounts of quickly available nitrogen cause the plants to grow with startling speed. Ever since Shell's cautious introduction of this gaseous fertilizer, growers' demand for it has far exceeded the supply. But now Shell...
...Much U.S. ore, either low-grade or in small deposits, is untouched because no hitherto commercial methods* of treating it have been developed. Ickes proposes to turn small scattered iron-ore deposits into sponge iron by the gaseous reduction process, smelt the sponge iron in electric furnaces...
...awed with trepidation at my limited ability." But his subsequent actions made it sound as if he really meant it. His supposedly brash, testy Army Government proposed to continue conversations with Washington looking toward "peace with justice." The Government-controlled Japan Times and Advertiser sent up a gaseous trial balloon offering all the warring nations a "last chance" to have Japan mediate World War II. Most startling of all, Premier Tojo's ostensibly fire-eating Army Government called for an extraordinary session of the Diet in mid-November-its first such session since 1937. All this scarcely sounded...
Third came the synthesizing of a group of liquid hydrocarbons called alkylates out of either 1) natural gas or 2) the gaseous by-products of the cracking process for making ordinary gasoline. Alky-lates alone have an octane rating of about 93, but they respond quickly when lead is added, making possible ratings well above...