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...Recipe: half a lime, jigger of vodka, add ginger beer to taste...
...Clipson, a big painting contractor. Its chief ingredient is vermiculite, a cheap mica-like mineral which, when heated, swells up to 16 times its volume like a pulled-out accordion. Vermiculite's resilience and cellular structure (mostly air) give Pyrok its lightness and strength. A special combination of lime and cement (Clipson's secret) makes the stuff stick tight...
...Agriculture Ministry. For his next try, Pedro was negotiating last week with a commercial airline for a larger plane which could carry water and dry ice, as well as photographers and newspapermen. Although the desert had not yet bloomed, Peruvians had faith in Rainmaker Venturo. Said one Limeño: "The public shouldn't get disappointed-remember Salvarsan is called '606' because the discoverer failed the first 605 times...
...Record. The estimates of infected cattle ran between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 of Mexico's 13 million. Up to last week, approximately half a million diseased cattle had been shot and buried in lime pits, and thousands of exposed but uninfected animals had been sent to market. The anti-aftosa campaign, in which the U.S. alone has spent about $35 million, has enlisted 500 U.S. and 500 Mexican technicians, 2,000 civilian workers. More than 15,000 Mexican troops have assisted. From the U.S. has come about $3,000,000 worth of equipment-bulldozers for digging...
First finds were stone chips, by-products of ancient munitions-making. They turned up last spring beside Lime Creek, near Cambridge, Neb. When a task force from the University started to excavate, a flood helped by uncovering another chip deposit at the base of a bluff about 50 ft. high...