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...firemen, gleefully tearing down walls and ceiling, were packed into the tiny room from which the smoke poured. Meanwhile, co-operative Crimson stalwarts helped pull hoses up to the roof of the building. Their ardor was some-what dampened when boisterous fire-fighters above, testing a hose, directed the stream of water at the undergraduates...
...facetious, it is clear that her act is not to be admired. Another throws himself before a subway train, and although he has been a complacent parasite on his pauper friends, there is the uncomfortable hint that in his death he is the bravest of them all. Ken Holden, the some-what major figure, trims his political views to suit his status of the moment, and when he learns that his life-giving job is merely a concoetion of his father's well-meant trickery, he gets drunk, and then resigns himself. He it is who ends the play with...
Then light-molecule hydrocarbons like gasoline can be distilled off, as in the some-what similar process of "cracking" petro- leum. Germany produced about 300,000 tons of motor fuel by coal-hydrogenation last year; 500.000 tons is a likely figure for this year. Last year England's Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. completed a hydrogenation plant of 150,000 tons annual capacity. In the U. S., which produces oceans of oil, the commercial process has not got under...
...earth (total: 2,135,006), his detective magazines which feature pictures of real crooks and his "Women's Group" (True Romances, Love and Romance, True Experiences, Movie Mirror, Radio Mirror). So fat did the Macfadden fortune grow that in 1931 its proprietor was able to make the large but some-what vague gesture of organizing the charitable Bernarr Macfadden Foundation with the income from publishing properties which he described as "of the value of approximately...
...Education which is required in aviation must also teach the value of civilized institutions. Our responsibility in creating a great force for destruction may be some-what relieved by knowing that we have allied this thought with intelligence and education and that we have moved that power farther away from ignorance. I find some cause for hope in the belief that the power which must be bound to knowledge is less dangerous to civilization than that which is barbaric. It is the responsibility of aviation to further the combination of strength and intelligence...