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Show THE AGE OF STEEL. New alloys and new welding method?, me-thod?, producing articles of greatly increased strength, safety and dura-bil'ty, dura-bil'ty, and with only a fraction of the weight of the wooden and iron products pro-ducts they displace, have already begun be-gun to put many objects of daily use on a steel basis streamlined railroad trains, airplanes, motor car bodies, furniture, and now beer barrels. According to an industrial writer, the great, brewing industry, revived after the long drouth of prohibition, has discarded its old-fashioned equipment equip-ment and has rushed into steel in a big way. Ancient wooden vats have been replaced with huge storage tanks of spotless steel, and high-speed steel trucks have made the plunging teams of brewery horses a mere romantic memory. And beer is now distributed in steel barrels, instead of the outmoded out-moded containers of bygone days. The modern brewery, it is declared, is comparable to a hospital in its regard re-gard for sanitation. Its spotless cleanliness clean-liness and the complete sterilization made possible only by steel tanks and barrels give the ultimate consumer of beer his favorite beverage in as good condition as when it left the brewery. Thus the re-born brewing industry is doing its part of promoting a new and greater "age of steel," thereby aiding a basic industry upon whose rehabilitation the reemployment of labor so largely depends. |