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...makers of food containers and chemicals. In 1927 Marathon summoned Chemical Engineer Guy C. Howard, gave him a platoon of Ph.D.s and the job of finding more profitable channels for waste lignin than the Wisconsin River. Today, after 15 years of research costing some $2,000,000, Marathon adds lime to its waste liquors, precipitates out calcium lignin sulfonate, turns it into...
...into action. First they put out the incendiaries, squirting chemicals on them and flinging sand. The bomb-removal squad swung picks to dig up the still-unexploded bombs and hauled them away. The decontamination squad, dressed in rubber suits and gloves, went after the gas bombs, sprinkling chloride of lime everywhere...
Headed by Captain-elect dick Harris, 75 prospective Varsity and Freshman swimmers will meet for the first lime this season at three o'clock this afternoon in the balcony of the Indoor Athletic Building swimming pool...
...keyhole, they watched his familiar blue-clad figure flick down the "inrun" at 50 m.p.h., float past the judges' tower, and glide, arms whirling, into their midst in a perfect landing. His first jump measured 167 ft. In the gathering dusk he took off for his second. This lime he landed on one ski, nearly fell. When the span was measured, a mighty roar went up. Tokle had soared 180 ft., broken a record for the 13th time...
...smelter, a rolling mill, a canal over ten miles long, houses for 150,000 workmen. Then, like a geyser, the Göring Works shot up into a vertical trust, overflowed in every direction: into coal fields in Upper Silesia, gravel pits, quarries, lignite mines east of the Elbe, lime deposits in Bavaria, refractory materials in Upper Palatinate. Aiming at power-in-general rather than any organic industrial shape, the Göring trust next spread into oil fields, commercia houses, shipping companies. In 1938 the capital jumped to $160,000,000. The next year Fritz Thyssen abdicated. Under...