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...Cryolite was used only in making caustic soda, sodium bicarbonate and alum. But "Salt" presently learned that it formed an excellent flux for manufacturing opaque glass and for coating enamelware, tile and porcelain. Best of all it turned out to be a valuable ingredient for aluminum. Rocketing aluminum sales and war scares lately have boomed the cryolite trade. '"Salt" maintains its monopoly with ease since the mines discovered by the Eskimos at Ivigtut, Greenland, remain the only ones in the world. Because the mining season is necessarily short, "Salt" usually gets but two shipments annually on little Scandinavian freighters...
...twelve wings to insure outside light to every office, he invited Washington newshawks in to view its wonders as soon as he got himself seated in his oak-paneled office. To his chagrin the newshawks decided that the wonder of wonders was his private bathroom with giddy blue tile walls, a tub which they described as "not quite big enough for a swim," a bath mat embroidered with a brown donkey and the confident inscription: "We are here to stay...
Pleased with the prospect of getting $50, Dean Eldridge said: "I am going to tile the bathroom floor...
Limping into a Mineola, N. Y. courtroom, plump, deaf Gertrude Ederle, celebrated English Channel swimmer (1926), opened suit for $50,000 damages against the Justine Apartments, where she claims she slipped on a loose stair tile in 1933, suffering a permanent spinal injury which has kept her invalid ever since...
...uses for Presdwood has changed the story. Last year 100 carloads of Presdwood were sold to Hollywood producers for scene sets, 200 carloads to the automobile industry, another 200 carloads to trailer makers. A relatively new outlet is for concrete forms. Twelve manufacturers fabricate it as artificial tile, and the toy industry takes it in hundreds of carloads. But the building industry is the big market, Presdwood being particularly adaptable to modernistic design. The Masonite house was one of the architectural high spots of Chicago's Century of Progress, was inspected by 3,000,000 people. Latest Masonite product...