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...months John Van Ness, 19, has fought with the Marines. When they landed on Guadalcanal, he was one of the tiny group that survived the Japs' withering cross fire on the beaches, battled for 118 days without replacement. All this his slender, greying father, Lloyd, has had in mind as he works in Curtiss-Wright's plane-propeller plant in Caldwell, N.J. Last week, Lloyd Van Ness passed his 1,000th consecutive day on the job. He has not taken a Saturday, Sunday or holiday off for nearly three years. Said Iron Man Van Ness...
...smoky, industrial São Paulo, the Chicago of South America, divine protection was invoked last week for a band of 100 men. A Brazilian flag was blessed at Mass and the 100 shoved off for the wilder ness. Northwest toward an uncharted, un spoiled piece of the earth went flashy Colonel Flaviano Mattos Vanique with 30 technical experts, 70 roustabouts and science's most modern equipment. Their object: to open for colonization the Mato Grosso (Big Woods) province, half again the size of Texas; to map topography, explore for gold, diamonds, rubber and platinum...
...hedged with two provisos: 1) a 20% fare increase for 55 million commuters, which White recommended; 2) easing of the crushing property taxes levied against the railroad by local governments and used in part to build superhighways and extend subway services that have cut the railroad's busi ness by 50 million passengers since...
With Ash Can & Grater. Lithium's industrial champion is chunky, soft-spoken Harold J. Ness, who began experimenting with the restless metal during the depression, when his work as a metallurgist with a forging company slackened. His first laboratory was his coalbin, and the first lithium furnace was made from ash cans. The lithium was powdered with a common kitchen cheese grater...
While testing his metal in alloys (lithium had been used to harden lead, purify copper), Ness noticed that the little furnace did not burn out as soon as expected, discovered that lithium vapor was preventing oxidation of the steel. Then it was found that a little lithium lasted a long time because it was being chemically regenerated from its own oxide by the carbon monoxide present in the fuel gas. This discovery the Patent Office refused to believe until U.S. examiners went to the little brick laboratory in Newark, saw with their own eyes how lithium worked. Then they granted...