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This week a pilot plant at São Paulo was ready (except for a chemical solvent which must be obtained from the U.S.) to start converting 50,000 bags of coffee a year into cafelite. About to be built, possibly with Export-Import Bank funds, is a $3,500,000 main plant which will consume 5,000,000 bags of coffee a year, produce 350,000,000 lb. of cafelite. Current world production of plastics powders is 500,000,000-750,000,000 lb. a year...
...Warner experiments are borne out, the detoxicant mixture may be of great help in industrial poisonings, for it works effectively on lead, benzol (a solvent) and carbon tetrachloride (used in the cleaning industry). For human consumption, the detoxicants are made up in small white pills, which taste like strong, sour orange juice. Physicians are trying them on patients at several large medical schools, for alcoholism, toxemias of pregnancy, arthritis...
...conclusion the Student Council Committee believes the N.Y.A. Student Work Program to be the solvent of many of the difficulties of the students at Harvard University. We earnestly hope that the authorities of the University will give the plan their most favorable consideration...
...assigned Patent No. 2,228,309 for an artillery gunpowder which is smokeless, moisture-resistant and flashless. Other such powders have been developed but they are complicated, costly, hard to handle. The new powder contains only three ingredients: nitrocellulose, dinitrotoluene, diphenylamine. These are treated with an alcohol-acetone solvent, mixed, squirted out in strands like spaghetti, finally pulverized to grain size...
...Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Willkie set forth five points to which the administration ought to adhere if we are to have a "sound and solvent" financial history, instead of the inflation which he sees impending...