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Stefantasy, v. 5, issue 2, June 1949
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[bullet point] THE FIRST PAGE "You can fool some of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people some of the time, [bold] but you can't fool some of the people some of the time." - Ambrose J. Weems The following "News-Script" was sent in by Herb Strickler last year, when it got lost on my desk. It's from Chemical and Engineering News for September 27, 1948, and seems to indicate I'm not the only screwball running around loose. [Subheading] They're Made of Ectoplasm A technological pursuit virtually unknown to chemists and chemical engineers was revealed to them at the Alpha Chi Sigma dinner during the St. Louis meeting, by speaker G. A. Rohlfing of the Aluminum Ore Co. While he is a full time employee of that company, it seems that he ha oranized a little business on the side. He and a group of his ingenious associates have organized a company for the manufacture of prefabricated holes and excavations. For example, if a farmer wishes to build a fence and do it well, he orders the post holes from this company and they are shipped by the car lot according to specification. The company even extends itself to such large orders as prefabricated basement excavations. These, however, must be shipped knocked down as such a large hole is too much, in one piece, for a freight car. One of the company's major contributions during the war was in connection with armor piercing bullets. They found that by shooting a prefabricated hole with the bullet, any desired depth could be obtained. In precision jobs, such as metal tubing, the hole is manufactured to specification and the metal is wrapped around it. The fabrication of these units is no simple task and there are many problems connected with it. For example, in the plant it was found that the workers were careless with scraps which became scattered As a result the floor around the waste can was soon fill of holes. A highly artistic phase of this production was developed in the manufacture of wormholes for antique furniture. This reached such a stage of specialization that the company was building either straight or curved holes to specification. A special breed of worm was cultivated for the purpose. A major catastrophe resulted, however, when in filling an order for several hundred gross of straight holes the worm turned. A special job was given the company by a farmer who had bought a drilled well from a war surplus plant. He asked the hole fabricators to move the well for him. This was final- [footer] JUOE 3
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[bullet point] THE FIRST PAGE "You can fool some of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people some of the time, [bold] but you can't fool some of the people some of the time." - Ambrose J. Weems The following "News-Script" was sent in by Herb Strickler last year, when it got lost on my desk. It's from Chemical and Engineering News for September 27, 1948, and seems to indicate I'm not the only screwball running around loose. [Subheading] They're Made of Ectoplasm A technological pursuit virtually unknown to chemists and chemical engineers was revealed to them at the Alpha Chi Sigma dinner during the St. Louis meeting, by speaker G. A. Rohlfing of the Aluminum Ore Co. While he is a full time employee of that company, it seems that he ha oranized a little business on the side. He and a group of his ingenious associates have organized a company for the manufacture of prefabricated holes and excavations. For example, if a farmer wishes to build a fence and do it well, he orders the post holes from this company and they are shipped by the car lot according to specification. The company even extends itself to such large orders as prefabricated basement excavations. These, however, must be shipped knocked down as such a large hole is too much, in one piece, for a freight car. One of the company's major contributions during the war was in connection with armor piercing bullets. They found that by shooting a prefabricated hole with the bullet, any desired depth could be obtained. In precision jobs, such as metal tubing, the hole is manufactured to specification and the metal is wrapped around it. The fabrication of these units is no simple task and there are many problems connected with it. For example, in the plant it was found that the workers were careless with scraps which became scattered As a result the floor around the waste can was soon fill of holes. A highly artistic phase of this production was developed in the manufacture of wormholes for antique furniture. This reached such a stage of specialization that the company was building either straight or curved holes to specification. A special breed of worm was cultivated for the purpose. A major catastrophe resulted, however, when in filling an order for several hundred gross of straight holes the worm turned. A special job was given the company by a farmer who had bought a drilled well from a war surplus plant. He asked the hole fabricators to move the well for him. This was final- [footer] JUOE 3
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