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...came some long-chain alcohols which long seemed useless, but have now made Du Pont a prime supplier of raw materials for soapless soaps (detergents). In a pilot plant at Wilmington, Du Pont is turning out titanium metal-as light as aluminum, but as strong and corrosion-resistant as stainless steel. Titanium is costly now, but Du Pont remembers that aluminum once cost $12 a pound, thinks titanium has a big future...
With a hefty swipe of a stainless steel shovel, President Benjamin F. Fairless started work last week on U.S. Steel Corp.'s new $400 million plant near Morris ville, Pa. The "Fairless Works" will pour 1,800,000 tons of steel a year, add about 5% to Big Steel's capacity. But the Morrisville plant was just the start of a rush; Jones & Laughlin, Armco Steel and Bethlehem were also hustling to multiply their capacity, along with a swarm of hastily formed new steel companies...
...Cambridge Traffic Commission at last is replacing the frail, chilly wooden traffic control tower in Harvard Square with a larger concrete-and-stainless-steel edifice. It will have copper trimmings; just about all it will lack is central heating...
...think that I shall never see A poem weird as a world tree A tree to brighten every meal With fragrant boughs of stainless...
...control box, now under construction behind a wooden barricade at the corner of Boylston Street and Massachusetts Avenue, will have a six-foot square concrete base, four wide plate-glass windows, a copper covered roof, and aluminite and stainless steel trimming, including its bright copper spindle, the new box will tower almost 18 feet above the Square...