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...vapors and the "fluid" catalyst are forced under 10-lb. pressure through tiny holes into a reaction chamber at a temperature of around 800-975° F. In scant seconds the oil is cracked and the mixture-vapors, gases and carbon-coated catalyst-moves up through cyclone separators where the powder is dropped into a spent catalyst chamber. From there it flows into a regeneration chamber where a stream of air burns off the carbon at a temperature of 1,000-1,150° F. The powder, still moving, is cleaned of remaining gases in more cyclone separators...
...meteoric career of Joe Strong, the Boy Plunger, ended abruptly with the latter's disappearance from Wall Street, few knew that Perelman had ended another chapter. In bloody Cicero, Illinois, swart Sicilian mobsters fingered their roscoes uneasily, dismayed at lightning forays by a new rival. In a scant eight months, no shell of needled beer touched lip in Chicago County without previous tribute to 'Nails' Perelman. Implacable, deadly as a puff adder, the hand that triggered a steely automatic could caress a first Folio with equal relish. Able to snatch in fifteen minutes the rest most...
Meanwhile students must plan for the coming term, and there is some basis for planning. The departure of the ERC was originally scheduled to start with the retraining program on the first of February. But things are moving slowly in Washington; the scant information available indicates that manpower leaders are still debating what procedure should be used in choosing the colleges for the retraining program. It is certain that no colleges have yet been picked, that neither the Army nor the Navy has drawn up any contracts, and that neither has yet started to choose men to be sent back...
...forces. Its commander, General Barre, gathered what forces he had in the interior and said: "We will be attacked and we will defend ourselves." More serious battles in Tunisia were likely to be between Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle's U.S. planes and Axis aircraft from Sicily, a scant 140 miles away. This week when a bomber bearing General Doolittle was attacked, he took over the controls from his wounded co-pilot and continued his flight. U.S. troops landed at the excellent port of Philippeville, 210 miles east of Algiers, and by the end of the second day were within...
Before the battle of El Hemeimat, Britain's chances of holding Rommel in the desert had seemed desperately scant. In Rommel's last attack the Eighth Army had lost more than 80,000 men, to say nothing of huge amounts of munitions and supplies which Rommel had confiscated and put to his own use. The army had been driven 400 miles back, was disorganized and discouraged. Then...