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Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1939, Page 12

' The U.S. Board of Tea Experts, which consists of seven men, taste hundreds of samples of tea. From the results they dictate the quality of the twenty billion cups of tea drunk annually in the United States. # # # * Mritain is to suppl ythe Turkish Government with 58 railway locomotives at a cost of about £1,000.000. It is the biggest single export order for locomotives which Britain has secured for many years. # # * * In England, conditions for stokers are being made more pleasant by the introduction of a synthetic secret known as Dowtherm A. It is a mixture of diphenyl and diphenyl oxide, and freezes at a temperature as high as 54.7 degrees. Formerly used only for the manufacture of resins and plasters, Dowtherm A is cheap enough to be a commercial proposition on certain plants, and has the advantage of making a boiler room smell of geraniums instead oi coal and crude «iL