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...advantage of the hot water heating system over steam and hot air systems is that hot water retains its heat longer than do steam or air. Hot liquids in general are better storers of heat than are vapors or gases. But it is difficult to raise the temperatures of liquids to very high, useful heats. Chemical engineers obtain controlled temperatures of about 900° F. with an organic substance, diphenyl. Highest degree to which water can go and remain water is 698° F. Its pressure against pipes is then almost 2,900 lb. per sq. in. This difficulty gives...
...indignant book. Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox, she was depicted as an "arch-hypocrite" in approaching Producer Fox with the Peace Ship plan which she also took to Henry Ford.* Died. Reinhold Tiling, 37, German rocket plane experimenter; of injuries suffered when a rocket he was charging with liquid explosive blew up in his laboratory, killing one assistant, wounding another; at Osnabrück, Germany. Died. Charles Hamilton Sabin, 65. board chairman of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., director of 23 corporations, treasurer of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, longtime president of the Boys' Club...
...quarterly statement of condition issued by First National Bank of Englewood (Chicago) revealed that its head, John M. Nichols, had made his bank 100% liquid. To criticism that First National of Englewood has been hoarding money instead of functioning as a bank, Mr. Nichols replied: "If I were to put any of our 17,000 depositors behind my desk to pass on the type of security borrowers offer these days they wouldn't make the loans. Then why should I? I haven't been making much money lately, but I've been playing a lot of golf...
...This new liquid, priced at $150 a gram, can now be made at the rate of one thimbleful at a time, where formerly only a single drop was produced. "Heavy water" will be useful to physicists studying the structure of the atom...
...things first. But credit inflation was, at length. One reason that NRA was failing to produce results was that codified industries had trouble borrowing money to finance new costs before new profits accrued. Why? Because many banks were hoarding their commercial credit. Why? Because they wanted to be completely liquid to qualify under the new deposit insurance system Jan. 1. Chairman Jones was deluged with advice as to how his R. F. C. could loosen its resources, break the credit deadlock. How to speed the reopening of banks frozen shut since winter was another topic of lively debate. Comptroller...