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...test, Bear Creek Rapids, which a week earlier dashed a boatman to death, lived up to its bad reputation by capsizing the first starter. Soon Theo Bock lost his lead to France's Roger Paris, who kept his kayak ahead for 15 miles until he hit right-angling Tin Cup Rapids and got ducked...
...served for eight months during World War II on leave from the House as a naval officer in the Pacific. His Preparedness subcommittee infuriated the Pentagon, but did what non-Pentagon observers consider a good job. It saved the U.S. taxpayers $500 million by recommending changes in the tin program, saved $1 billion by its discovery that the Government was paying too much for natural rubber while disposing of its own synthetic rubber plants. The most remarkable result of the committee's work was a ringing testimonial to Johnson's ability to get agreement...
Freedom from the Mine. There is no danger, says Rosin, that man will ever run out of mineral necessities. Along with freedom from the plant will come "freedom from the mine." Most scarce elements-e.g., tin-can be replaced by substitutes. What's more, almost any element can be recovered from the "dilute abundance" that covers the earth. Sea water, for instance, contains every element on the list. It is already supplying bromine and magnesium; it could supply many more...
...sticks to bright, flat, posterlike hues. He never sings the glory of dappled things, nor does he praise anything soft, warm, delicate or liquid. Under Léger's firm brush, foliage, flesh, hair, fabrics, clouds and the very air itself take on an appearance of stamped, enameled tin...
...metals yet found which will not absorb atomic neutrons. But it is a frightening metal to process; in powder form it is so unstable that it will ignite from the motion of just being transferred from one dish to another. Its ores are more plentiful than tin, but the metal itself is still scarce...