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Keeping in mind that in dealing with youths in school and college, "one is dealing with potential power, not developed capacity," President Conant noted the need to mold this material into its most effective shape. "If two years or more in college is of value to an officer, then the non-college man starts with a big handicap against him." Still, he pointed out, "education like all else must be refashioned quickly to confirm to the imperious needs of a desperate...
...increase in the alcohol yield of grains can be had by using bread molds instead of the conventional malt* to convert starches to sugars, which are then fermented by yeasts. So reported Leland A. Underkofler, Ellis I. Fulmer and Lu Cheng Hao of Iowa State College, who point out that molds instead of malt were used long ago in the unscientific Orient. Grown on wheat bran, the molds are prepared in one-fifth the time required for malt. Their action yields 93 to 96% of the alcohol theoretically obtainable from corn, whereas malt yields only about 85%. Thus "the alcohol...
...ships were there-in men's minds, on drafting boards, in molten pig rolling out of blast furnaces, in mold lofts, in shops where steel was twisted and wrenched into shape, on ways, alongside docks getting fitted out and smeared with the last daub of grey war paint. Some were on the high seas. Into Alexandria, Egypt, last week steamed the Patrick Henry, after a maiden voyage that took her around South Africa, through the Red Sea and the Suez into the Mediterranean, with 10,000 tons of war supplies...
Whirling Cannon. Induction heating contributes to one of the most ingenious practices in modern arsenals-the centrifugal casting of gun barrels. Steel is induction-melted, then poured into a horizontally rotating mold which continues to spin until the casting hardens. Thus formed is a hollow, easy-to-bore barrel instead of the solid ingot from which cannon were formerly forged and drilled. Slag (formed by the oxidation of the molten metal) is forced to the inner surface of the casting, where it can easily be tooled away...
...series, is conclusive proof that the throngs of film fans who flock to see Nick Charles solve murder after murder in his individual and somewhat alcoholic way are not going to be disappointed for a long time to come. More of them, cast in the same dizzy mold, seem to be in order...