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Spring fever was high in Federal Light & Traction Co.'s annual meeting, held last week on the 45th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper. Sunlight tumbled through the windows. Eight spring-struck shareholders (of Federal's 1,900) lolled in their chairs, babbled of brook trout and pheasant. One shareholder stirred, asked President Clarence H. Nichols if there was anything interesting about the company. Droned Mr. Nichols: "No, it's the same old thing, we earn our charges and a little bit more...
Widener reading room was quiet except for the labored scratching of pens. Vag looked around and yawned. He surveyed the room, which, in contrast with the blue sky and sunlight outside, looked gloomier than ever. Across the table someone was busily taking notes on a big, red book called "The Origin and Evolution of Life." He wondered whether the student would know anything more about Life after reading the book than before. "Probably not," Vag reflected, sadly. He yawned again and looked outside. "Wonder what the Red Sox are doing," he thought, gazing dully at his book...
...cauldron with sand, felt the vessel shiver in her hands, and ring with the rumor of distant artillery. The peasants vaguely began to realize that they must expect "the little dwarfs from the East Ocean, who always like to fight." On a later day, high and small in the sunlight as daylit stars, the first "flying ships" came over, to their admiration, dropping silver eggs which made the earth stand up like black trees. From his son-in-law Wu Lien, a Nanking shopkeeper, Ling Tan learned that where these eggs fell in the city, all was reduced to dust...
Died. Sir Francis D'Arcy Cooper, 59, chairman of the giant Lever Brothers & Unilever, Ltd. (Sunlight soap in Britain, Lux in the U.S.); in Reigate, England. He succeeded to the chairmanship after the death of Lord Leverhulme...
...earlier, smellier form as DuPrene). Acetylene gas is made into monovinylacetylene, which reacts with hydrochloric acid to form a liquid called chloroprene. Heat and pressure polymerize this substance into a tough, elastic product which looks much like crude natural rubber, but far surpasses it in resistance to age, heat, sunlight and gases. Thus neoprene is an excellent material for coating the 1,000,000 square yards of cotton in every U.S. barrage balloon. With remarkable foresight the U.S. Army last spring placed orders or laid plans with every large rubber processor in the country for production of hundreds of such...