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Washtubs & Sun Lamps. The three-ton question allowed no time for designing or building machinery. Dr. Harden used his laboratory as a factory and tried every short cut he could think of. First step was pouring a solution of uranium salt and other chemicals into a battery of wooden washtubs on the roof. There the photochemical action of the ultraviolet rays in sunlight (on cloudy days, sun lamps) converted the transparent liquid into green, powdery potassium uranium fluoride. The second step: melting this secondary uranium salt in graphite cups for electrolytic separation of the pure metal. The electrodes were raised...
...Paris last week, the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission issued its first two catalogues, which offered to transplanted Americans (and secondly to Europeans) $11,500,000 worth of everything from aspirin to three-ton Diesel cranes. First taker: the Belgian Government, which got 300 automobiles and 125 tons of steel rods...
...giant shovel dipped and took a three-ton bite of rich, iron-bearing earth. Steep Rock Mine was open at last. The men who saw this happen in the wilderness near Atikokan, Ont. knew they were seeing economic history in the making...
...Dillner Transfer Co. applied to operate an air-cargo line to haul household goods anywhere in the U.S. and Alaska. The company wants to fly pianos, refrigerators, kitchen stoves, etc., would start out with four cargo planes (five-and ten-ton load capacity) and six gliders (two-or three-ton loads...
...Road became a cloud of dust by day, reeking with the stench of hot metal and gasoline. Bumper to bumper, crawling at five miles an hour, humping along at 25, went outsize lorries, gasoline and water transports, trailers laden with tanks, ten-ton Whites, ten-ton Macks, three-ton Fords and Chevrolets (75% of the wheeled traffic was U.S.-made), staff cars, jeeps, moving westward, returning eastward for more supplies...