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...smoke from big black cigars supercharged the sticky heat of the basement cafeteria in Chicago's Wabash Avenue Y.M.C.A. A well-dressed, pipe-smoking Negro rose to address the third annual conference of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association. His 75 listeners, full of fried chicken and Pepsi-Cola, were still wrought up about the issue of their press and their race...
...Network was born approximately three years ago on an unsuccessful heating-pipe arrangement. Its new electrical bookup has proved feasible, operating for two years from its Shepard Hall studio...
...electrical cable filled with gas is now carrying high-voltage current for seven miles from a Detroit Edison Co. power plant to nearby arms factories. Built by General Cable Corp., it is the longest gas-filled cable in the world: a steel pipe through which run three one-inch copper ropes, separately insulated and packed in nitrogen gas at a pressure of 200 lb. per sq. in. There are a few other such cables, the first of which was installed in the U.S. by General Electric for the Yonkers (N.Y.) Electric Light & Power Co. as a refinement on oil-filled...
...service or defense work, who are yet out of touch with potential jobs. There are a lot of vacancies occasioned by men who have left the government for the Army or Navy, and bright Harvard lads who can't get into the armed forces should have some sort of pipe-line to Washington. It might even be worthwhile to keep a representative of the Bureau at the capital, since it is functioning for graduates as well as for students. As things now stand, there is too little centralization. It is still the safest bet to make a trip to Washington...
APPRECIATE THOUGHTS GAS RATIONING. SOLUTION DUE SHORTLY TRANSPORTATION PIPE LINES...