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Peering through clouds of sulphurous powder-smoke, Professor Tenney L. Davis of Massachusetts Institute of Technology addressed the Boylston Chemical Club last night on "Explosives...
...spite of the apparent war in Europe, 95 per cent of the explosive agents now in use are being utilized for peaceful purposes, mining, excavation, and engineering. Professor Davis claimed that the discovery of gun-powder had a greater effect on the development of civilization of the present and the age of steel than the discovery of America...
Basically, powder enabled man to open the bowels of the earth for ores of all kinds, which were before only found scattered sparsely on the surface of the earth...
Last January, in its annual report, Atlas Powder Co. revealed that its new TNT plant at Wilmington was booked to capacity-through this year and into the first half of 1941-by rearmament orders of the U. S. Government and others. Last week, in a report to SEC, Atlas revealed how the belligerents have managed to get a preferred place on its TNT order books: $1,427,000 has been lent to Atlas by France and England, interest free, to be used for building a new TNT plant. All its output is to go to the Allies for shells, bombs...
...freely exhibited himself with Bergen's imp on his well-tailored knee, resigned. Charlie's hour was cut to 30 minutes, shorn of his sarongster stooge Dorothy Lamour. The advertising business buzzed with Standard Brands' changes: J. Walter Thompson kept coffee, tea and yeast; Royal Baking Powder went to McCann-Erickson; Royal Gelatin Dessert to Sherman K. Ellis. The advertising budget, about $5,500,000 in 1939, came in for some pruning...