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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hixson believes his process will not only free the U.S. from dependence on imported ores but will provide alumina cheaper than present methods of extracting it from high-grade bauxite ores. The process takes advantage of the fact that part of the aluminum silicate of which clay is largely composed is aluminum oxide. Boiling hydrochloric acid, Hixson found, combines with the oxide to form aluminum chloride dissolved in water (though it does not affect the silica). Impurities such as iron chloride (formed at the same time) are then removed with an ether. The remaining aluminum' chloride solution is then...
Hixson thinks his process can produce alumina from rich clays and low-grade bauxite for about $31 per ton. Present cost of alumina made from rich bauxite ores is estimated at between...
This dippy denouement spoils the picture, but it does not spoil the excellence of many of its parts. Actors Grant and Fontaine make very attractive love to each other, turn in a high-grade performance. And, thanks to Hitchcock's tricks (letting the camera wander down cliffs, pause disturbingly on people's faces), the film has a texture that can almost be touched...
Sometimes over-mental, illogical, actionless, Suspicion has enough Grade-A Hitchcock in it to be notable, even in failure. Best example: a Government crime-laboratory expert, carving his broiled fowl at the dinner table with the deadly scalpel strokes of a surgeon dissecting a cadaver, pauses to comment: "A very interesting corpse dropped in the other...
...manager. Meanwhile all the old hokum about the lighter with a soul who goes blind, etc., etc., etc. occurs with Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom and other pugilistic debris to provide an interesting background. A bit below the pan of the Maisie series, the show is still one of the best grade...