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...early in the week (TIME, July 15). announced a "general agreement" on the Rolls-Royce job, considered asking for an RFC loan. Meanwhile the War Department made a deal with Du Pont (which virtually forswore the munitions business after the last war) to operate a projected $30,000,000 smokeless-powder plant at Louisville. First of four such plants to be built and owned by the U. S., it will have a daily capacity of 200,000 lb., more than double the present total U. S. output...
Chemicals: Ammonia and ammonium compounds, chlorine, dimethylaniline (for explosives), diphenylamine (for smokeless powder), nitric acid, nitrates, nitrocellulose, soda lime, sodium acetate, strontium chemicals (for explosives), sulfuric acid...
...years, St. Louis has choked in "smog"-mixture of fog and smoke belched out by furnaces burning southern Illinois soft coal (TIME, March 4). To clear the air, the city recently passed an ordinance requiring smokeless fuel or the installation of equipment to burn soft coal smokelessly. Mining towns of south ern Illinois now vow they will boycott St. Louis merchants (who sell Illinois coal miners more than $50,000,000 worth of products a year...
Last week the committee turned in its report, recommended that: 1) users of Southern Illinois coal must install mechanical fuel burning equipment to burn it smokelessly; 2) all others must use smokeless fuel - coke, oil, briquettes, gas; 3) if necessary the city must buy, sell and distribute smokeless fuel to bring it to consumers cheaply. Those measures were designed to eliminate St. Louis smoke in three years. Mayor Dickmann endorsed the plan, pledged that he would push the recommendations, and deep breathers could look forward to the day when St. Louis air would again be fresh...
Shenandoah. Huddled in a fold in the Pennsylvania hills, with bulbous Greek Catholic church domes rising over wooden houses, this once-prosperous anthracite town is rusty, dingy, mournful, too melodramatic to be desolate. The Shenandoah City Colliery, its windows broken, its stacks smokeless, is a wild ruin; Stief's Cut Rate Drug and Quick Lunch occupies the banking room of the defunct Shenandoah Trust Co. But once John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, rode triumphantly up Main Street. Joseph Beddal was killed during the strike of 1902 trying to smuggle arms to strikebreakers besieged in the Reading...