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...greater firmness the pins are driven in obliquely, as a carpenter drives a nail. Each set of pins is then locked into a pin-bar, and the two bars are bolted to a long extension rod, forming a sort of external auxiliary bone. The apparatus (weight: 2¼ Ib.) is made of a light aluminum alloy except for 1) the pins, which are stainless steel so that they will not corrode in contact with flesh and bone, 2) the pin-bars, which are plastic so they will not set up the tissue-irritating galvanic currents induced when different metals touch...
Figuring, as surveys indicate, that about 700 Ib. of scrap can be got from the average farm and 100 Ib. of scrap from the average home, the nation's 6,000,000 farms can turn up 1,880,000 tons, the nation's 22,000,000 non-farm homes can turn up 1,000,000 more. Together they could keep the mills going at the present rate for about a year-if all were salvaged, which is hardly likely...
...spear. An exception among opera singers (most of whom have to have their parts drilled into them by coaches and conductors), she could sit down at the piano and teach herself the most taxing roles. Always a robust Brünnehilde, Matzenauer became one of the most prodigious (203 Ib.) singers ever to prance the operatic proscenium. She married and divorced three husbands. The last of them (a California chauffeur named Floyd Glotzbach) she once fondly described as "100 per cent a man." Margaret Matzenauer sternly disapproves of the career of her daughter, Adrienne Matzenauer, who sings blues and torch...
...prime virtue of the Zero is that it handles well-climbs fast and maneuvers quickly. Its speed is good (more than 350 m.p.h. at 10,000 feet) and its service ceiling is exceptional: 36,000 feet. It is light (5,140 Ib. is normal flying weight) and rather small (wing span, 39.4 feet; length, 28.4 feet...
Conn, a notorious night owl, will probably enter the ring a better man than last time. Army life has put him in the pink of condition, added 15 Ib. to his weight of a year ago (when he weighed 174 to Louis' 200). At 24, he should be at the peak of his fistic career. Always slow at getting himself into fighting shape, Louis has been hindered, not helped, by the cavalry. Used to training for six weeks or more, he may find four weeks too short to get his fill of roadwork before starting to sharpen his timing...