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Evening Star, Issue 17924, 21 March 1922, Page 6

,A great step forward toward tho complete safety of tlio aerial liner has at last horn taken, Tlio nan-inflammable airship •will mean the removal of one a! the greatest daaqam that liaa constantly beset the problem of carrying p assizers on a large scale tiuxxujjh too air, A hago piaut for tlt9 production of the wm-inllajnmablo gas helium was started! ia Texas, at Fort Worth, during the war, and since it was begin* over a million pounds has beon spent on it. A report states that the factory la now turning out 300,000 cubic feet of helium a month at tanpenco a cubic foot. Only a few years ago this gas, tho next lightest element to hydrogen, cost £1,200 a cubic foot to male, and was regarded as ona of the rarest elements. 'Shim it was discovered that the natural gaa issuing from the ground in certain parta of Texan contained quite a largo proportion, of helium, and the problem, of separating it £r«m the burnable gai '«a# put in. Jwafl.