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Referring to TIME, April 6: You don't mean to say that Author Rex Stout takes sulphate of ammonia and nitrate of soda internally, do you? We use these substances to fertilize vegetables in our neighborhood...
...does Mr. Stout. Says he: "Recipe for a good beard: spread on sulphate of ammonia and nitrate of soda, sprinkle with beer, and rake well...
Present tin cans are about 98.5% sheet steel, 1.5% tin. (A recent WPB order has reduced the tin content of future cans to 1.25%.) By 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...
...Stout offered his own formula for beard cultivation on the first day of the great razor-blade shortage scare, to men who preferred to give up shaving. Prescribed bearded Author Stout: "Sulphate of ammonia, nitrate of soda, and beer. And plenty of beer...
...brain-trusters decided to clean up U.S. bowling alleys. Adopting the adage "Whither woman goeth, man will follow," they asked bowling-alley operators to throw out their spittoons, install soda fountains, easy chairs, pretty powder rooms-even nurseries with free nursemaid service, if necessary, to get women bowling. They got Hollywood to produce bowling shorts, hired bowling wizards like New York's Joe Falcaro, St. Louis' Lowell Jackson, San Francisco's Ora Mayer to give lessons in their respective communities. With sales talk like "Try Bowling for Stomach Fag," "Appendicitis Never Gets Bowlers," and "Movie Stars Bowl...