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...metal-plating process, can cut by 50 to 90% the amounts of zinc and tin now used to galvanize and tin-plate iron and steel. With ordinary electroplating equipment, a thin film of nickel is first deposited on the metal, then a layer of zinc or tin much thinner than usual is added. Baking then fuses the two coats into an alloy whose exceptional resistance to rust and corrosion has already been demonstrated on wire screens, and on Sears, Roebuck's insecticide spray tanks. Even though small amounts of nickel are required, the net result is a goodly saving...
...Saves materials (and further weight) because absence of rivet holes, which weaken sheet steel, means that plates and beams can be cut from thinner steel...
...portfolios-Finance, Defense, External Affairs and Home Affairs-are all held by British officials. Purred Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi for the Indian National Congress: "The announcement [of the appointments] . . . does not affect the stand taken by the Congress nor does it meet the Congress demands." Mahomed Ali Jinnah, who is thinner even than Saint Gandhi and is President of the All-India Moslem League, threatened disciplinary action against those who have anything to do with the Council...
Most fat people can get thinner by eating less but some skinny people can't automatically get fat by eating. However, Dr. Alfred Steiner of Columbia fattened nine obstinately skinny patients by feeding them approximately three and a half ounces of powdered egg yolks every day in addition to their regular diet. In a few months they gained five...
...thoughts and love," assured the press later in his $100-a-day Bermuda hotel suite: "I am very glad to be on this side of the Atlantic; that I can tell you." Consort Magda Lupescu, whose given name the curious had discovered was Elena, whose body was taller and thinner than rumor whose hair was blonder than red and had never had a permanent, dazzled the populace with a chiffon blouse, outsize earrings. an anklet, white powder, orange lipstick,' blue eyeshadow...