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...produced 44 billion kilowatt-hours of hydroelectricity in 1938. Potential maximum of all practicable waterpower sites has been estimated around 325 billion kwh. Though completion of the New Deal's dam program will not harness all this, experts foresee a big surplus over municipal and irrigation power needs. They also claim they know how to mop it up-build electrochemical factories near damsites, with hungry electricity-eaters like furnaces to produce calcium carbide (from limestone and coal electrically heated to 4,000° F.), acetylene, alcohol, acetone, fertilizers, insecticides, plastics. One modern, three-electrode calcium carbide furnace requires...
Born in the Greenwich Village Italian colony 37 years ago, Anthony Sisti began to draw early, though he says his cafe-keeping father never drew anything but beer from a tap. He began to box in 1917 at a Buffalo, N.Y. gym, and the next year won the amateur bantamweight championship of New York State. From then until 1930 he fought 100 professional bouts, lost 15, earned enough to go to Europe for five years and enough while there to pay tuition at the Florence Academy, where he got his doctor's degree in painting...
...greatest concert singers of this generation is Marian Anderson, Philadelphia-born Negro contralto. Since she skyrocketed to fame in Salzburg four years ago, the music-lovers and critics of the world's musical capitals have counted it a privilege to hear her sing. Last week it looked as though music-lovers in provincial Washington, D.C. might be denied this privilege. Reason: Washington's only large concert auditorium, Constitution Hall, is owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution, who are so proud they won't eat mush-much less let a Negro sing from their stage...
...Psychiatrist Fred Temple Burling of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. told of a wealthy young woman who had "an extravagant love" for the tremendous department store. She insisted on working for the store, no matter how small the job, even though she might have had positions with more social prestige. Dr. Burling soon discovered that the girl was deeply attached to her father, and that "she had personified the organization and transferred much of her fixation on her father to it." The case "may sound preposterous," concluded Dr. Burling, "but it is . . . an attitude I find pretty frequently...
...falls with automobile sales and the price of crude rubber. Two years ago most of the companies were sagging under heavy inventories; currently, the tire inventory position is the lowest in four years and revival of the automobile industry gives rubbermen reason to anticipate an excellent year. But though tire and tube sales are the industry's mainstay, providing 65% of total volume, the most significant fact about rubber today is its technological progress. At the threshold of its second 100 years, the industry is bubbling over with new ideas, new products...