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...year before. Imperial Oil Ltd. -Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) subsidiary- had sent young Theodore Augustus Link, fresh out of the University of Chicago, to sound out the possibilities. Lanky Dr. Link made his surveys, waited over the winter, after the ice left set out on Great Slave Lake with a motorboat, two scows overloaded with supplies, drill crews and an ox named "Nig." Eventually, after the ox had hauled the rig into position, the drillers...
During the past two months the Carney's Point, NJ. plant of Kinetic Chemicals (a joint General Motors-Du Pont subsidiary) bloomed with a 20% expansion. But the Army kept asking for more, and still more Freon. WPB tightened up. Kinetic now has under way another 75% plant expansion. But for the next six months, at least, civilians who want Freon for "comfort cooling" will do without. Notable victims: Price Boss Prentiss Brown, Congressman Sol Bloom, whose office air conditioning was cut off fortnight ago when the Freon leaked...
Rest of the industry is too busy to pay much attention to the fizzled Antonelli. Some of the five big fireworks companies -Unexcelled; National Fireworks Co. of Boston; M. Backes and Sons of Wallingford, Conn.; Triumph Fusee and Fireworks Co. of Elkton, Md.; Essex Specialty Co. of Berkley Heights, NJ.-are operating shell-loading plants. Others are turning out: huge parachute flares for the Air Forces; signal lights, both flare and smoke for the Navy and Merchant Marine ; incendiary bombs for Chemical Warfare; huge cannon crackers for the infantry to toss over the heads of soldiers in maneuvers, condition them...
HIRAM B. D. BLAUVELT Oradell, NJ...
Died. Dr. William Francis Magie, 84, notable fixture of Princeton's physics department for 50 years; after long illness; in Princeton, NJ. Valedictorian of Woodrow Wilson's class ('79), he was a member of the original Daily Princetonian board...