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Turned Into Armaments Turning old Bibles into guncotton, among other things, has helped to enrich in his old age Edward H. Partington, an inventor of Surbiton, Surrey, England. "When the war broke out in 1914 Mr. Partington was employed in Germany at a salary of £lO,OOO a year. He lost his job and his money at the age of 54. “When I lost my job,” he said, “I ■ came back to Manchester, my home, j In Germany I had realised the possi- • bilitles of old paper. The problem was to turn it into pulp and to get rid of the ink. “I got a job at £2O a week, but lived on £2, spending the rest on my experi-, ments. For sixteen years I worked at it without success. “Then, when I was 75, I succeeded. The simple method of removing the colour from old paper suddenly came to me two years ago.”
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 136, 5 March 1938, Page 3 (Supplement)
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158NEW USE FOR OLD BIBLES Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 136, 5 March 1938, Page 3 (Supplement)
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