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...various tinting materials and the white paint assumes any desired color. National Lead aLso makes red lead, used most conspicuously as an anti-rust coating for structural steel. It has a line of lead alloys, particularly Babbitt metal (a lead-tin alloy used in bearings), type metal and solder. It is one of the largest U. S. tin users, with an interest in Simon Patino's Bolivian tin mines and in other tin producers. National Lead has not missed a preferred dividend since 1893, a common dividend since...
...name was Cecil Kiper and he was ten years old. Sullen with fright, he denied knowing anything about the fire until taken before Governor Horner, who used to be a juvenile court judge. There Cecil Kiper told how he had filled a bag with shavings, weighted it with solder, lighted it, thrown it on the armory stage...
...defend the Cup against this year's British challenger, Hubert Scott-Paine's Miss Britain III. Fifteen minutes before the start, which had been postponed for three hours because of rough water, the Delphine V sputtered out from her boat well, where mechanics had been trying to solder up leaks in her fuel lines. Two miles below the grandstands, she burst into flames. Her crew drove her ashore, stood by safe but helpless while Delphine V burned to the waterline...
...range of vision extended for 560 miles. Thus, if you ascended over Boston, you could see Philadelphia. Our one other trial was the fact that the sun started to melt the solder about the manholes, again putting us in danger of asphyxiation. Fortunately, we were able to descend before irreparable damage was done...
...National Lead Co. whose principal business is to make things out of lead-such things as painters' materials (Dutch Boy Paint), babbitt metals, piano key leads, storage battery oxides. Important alloy of lead is tin, without which many of the most widely used lead products (such as solder) could not be made. The mines owned by National Lead are a small factor in its position as the world's largest consumer of tin and lead. For this reason National Lead, like any wise concern, keeps an eye on its raw supplies. It owns some Patiño stock...