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Aerocrete is made of Portland cement, sand and small quantities of lime, aluminum powder, soda. When poured out in thick liquid form, the presence of the aluminum powder in an alkaline solution causes a chemical reaction, liberates hydrogen, forms a cellular structure. Within a half-hour after pouring, aerocrete begins to puff up. At the end of an hour, expansion reaches its limit, the material hardens. By varying the amount of ingredients, expansion can be controlled, may vary from 50% to 150% of original volume...
...General Motors Acceptance Co., its gross is greater than any independent company's. To obtain this it is led into many fields. Thus at one time its files contained contracts on the printing equipment of 25 metropolitan newspapers, four Great Lakes steamers, plus the usual amount of soda fountains, scows, refrigerators, machinery. At present retail domestic automobile notes form the largest single item (29.54%) among C. I. T.'s receivables. Last December, however, this business formed 36.71% of the whole. The reduction did not occur because of any question in Mr. Ittleson's mind...
Pierre too, alas, loved (and in vain) a girl of his own home town. When Ann married his rival, Pierre cut a caper to hide his bleeding heart, took a job as soda-jerker to study character, saved his pay for his triumphal journey to Manhattan. On the eve of Pierre's departure old Tony appeared with a play he had written, read it to newly-married Ann. Tony's play, in Seven Keys to Baldpate style, goes on with the story from that point. It shows Pierre at the last minute sacrificing his career for Ann's sake, giving...
...hundred years ago Chile exported its first ton of nitrate of soda. The ton was shipped to New York, where no buyer appeared, no one knew exactly what to do with it. By now the U. S. (and every one else) knows well enough what to do with Chilean nitrate. In peacetimes one throws it on the ground as fertilizer. In wartimes one must have nitrogen to make explosives. Out of Germany's War-time need for nitrates came various processes for making synthetic nitrogen. And out of these processes came ever-increasing synthetic competition for the natural Chilean...
...Worth and Dr. Wiley in his second last book The History of a Crime Against the Food Law. Specific charges: Fruits are dried by sulfur dioxide; maple sugar often contains 80% cane sugar: prunes often are glazed with glucose, a bacteria breeder: cider is often adulterated with benzoate of soda, as is catsup; jam may be made of low-grade fruit filled with gelatin and water; ice cream is sometimes made of starch and gelatin...