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When the potent new explosive goes into mass production, it will head an impressive list of U.S. military explosives. Chief items: TNT, amatol (a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate for artillery shells and aerial bombs), smokeless powder (long in use as a propellant), tetryl (used in shell boosters to provoke the detonation of laggardly TNT or amatol). Least sensitive of all the Ordnance powders is ammonium pictrate, which is used in armor-piercing projectiles because it can wham through steel without going off at first impact...
...anxious to make a deal for two reasons. First, it would assure the Army and Navy of high-test molasses, one of the chief raw materials in making industrial alcohol, which is essential in smokeless powder (TIME, Oct. 13). By purchasing the entire crop, furthermore, the U.S. would avoid future open-market competition-especially with Britain. Already this year such head-to-head bidding has lifted Cuban sugar prices 230% to 2.5? a lb., highest since...
...presence of carbon and then cool it to around 380° in 1/1000th of a second with a blast of cold gas. During the heating, the carbon takes the oxygen away from the magnesium, and during the cooling the magnesium is precipitated as a fine powder too fast to recombine with the oxygen. This is called the Hansgirg process, and RFC has financed a $9,250,000 plant at Los Altos, near Palo Alto, Calif., to make 15,000 tons a year. The difficulty with the process is that the hot powdered magnesium is violently explosive. Already there has been...
...feel any compunction about spooning the aggressors full of the same bitter medicine Hitler is prescribing today. Yet in the long run, Americans have no interest in a policy of revenge. The eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-tooth principle of justice will add explosive to a future European powder-keg, and our only permanent interest in Europe is peace. The one nation distant enough and strong enough to enforce a just peace is the United States, and we have committed ourselves to a program the practical result of which is domination and whose eventual outcome may be yet another...
...trial, carrying opera glasses and basket lunches. Florrie's counsel was Sir Charles Russell, later Lord Chief Justice. Her defense: that May-brick had long been addicted to drugs of all sorts, including arsenic; that it was at his own insistence that Florrie had put some "white powder" into his meat juice; that the cause of death had not been fixed with any certainty (which was true); that she had soaked the flypapers for arsenic to use as a face lotion, a common cosmetic practice...