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...style except for the headgear; the Fitas wear a stiff red cloth band about three inches wide on the head, leaving the hair on top exposed. Also, the Fitas wear a white "lavalava" for general duty, and one of dark blue color for dress. They wear a red sash around the waist with both the white and blue lavalavas...
Baird and Engler contrived to do all their war work without one penny of Government funds for new equipment. When they needed new machines they rigged up their own Rube Goldberg contraptions (Baird is proudest of a crane he made out of pulleys', sash cords and weights from Texas Washer windows). They bought their materials jointly, ran production lines from one plant into the other. Recently they were thrilled to hear that they were due for an Army-Navy E to reward their joint efforts (the first dual plant award in the U.S. and the first Ordnance award...
...washing and shredding the cans, then treating with caustic soda and other chemicals, it is possible to extract about 25 Ib. of tin oxide (readily smelted to a grade equivalent to Straits tin) per ton. The detinned sheet steel, once despised and used only for rough castings such as sash weights, is now in big demand by scrap-hungry steelmakers...
...inauguration last week of Juan Antonio Ríos Morales as 22nd President of the Republic of Chile was simple and democratic. Entering the Honor Hall of Parliament as a private citizen, he advanced to the rostrum, took an oath to respect the Constitution, donned the red, white & blue sash-of-office which retiring Vice President Gerónimo Méndez doffed. As "Don Anónimo" Méndez walked out, Don Juan Antonio briefly announced his Cabinet and policy. Both reflected the man, as the man mirrored the epoch...
Kahn had never done one, but "would try." Brother Julius Kahn (later president of Truscon Steel, vice president of Republic) had invented an improved type of steel-reinforced concrete. The Packard fac tory became the first reinforced concrete and steel sash factory in the U. S. It also had window area of revolutionary proportions and a layout planned for efficient production. With this pioneering start, Kahn became the industry's No. 1 architect-engineer, has ever since designed most of Ford's, Chrysler's, General Motors' plants...