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      Master Chemical of All Chemicals Water Produces as Many Industrial Headaches as it Solves. However Intensive Research on the Whole Waler Problem is Pointing the Way Toward Trealment Methods Adaptable to Almost Any Troublesome Siluation in Factory or Home

      • By J. D. Ratcliff, The Staff on June 1, 1944
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