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...lovely coincidence in the new toluene technologies: as high-quality aviation gasoline is a by-product of toluene synthesis, increasing the production of one automatically adds to the supply of the other. Another happy sidelight: whereas, toluene from coal costs 27-30? a gallon, toluene from petroleum costs less than 25?, and the original cost of petroleum-toluene plants is not exorbitantly high. Humble Oil's huge, new catalytic plant in Texas (capable of producing as much toluene as the entire coke industry) cost the U.S. Government only...
...Thanks to Reader Heiden, onetime Frankfurter Zeitung correspondent, ace Hitler biographer, for a bright sidelight from the past and a cheering implication for the future...
...sidelight on the church administrative situation in the new province: Catholics in the part of Colorado which once belonged to Spain will continue to enjoy the privilege of eating meat on Fridays. That privilege was given to Catholics in Spain and its possessions in recognition of Spain's fight against the Moors...
...casualties with abdominal wounds recover, as compared to 38% in the last war. Otherwise, said Dr. Gordon Gordon-Taylor, Temporary Surgeon Rear Admiral of the British Navy, "there is little we have learned about abdominal wounds in this war that we had not already learned from the last war." Sidelight on civilian warfare: "Every maternity hospital in London was bombed but fortunately no patients were hurt while in labor...
Significant sidelight on these increases: in 1941 wage increases have accelerated, while the increase in profits (thanks to taxes) has leveled...