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MILLIONS for the NAVY Plenty, Too, for Industry .%P ft vyK * Spiralwound Uncle Sam's Navy is a critical buyer and a tough proving ground for any product. GASKETS If they're good enough for the Navy, you can be sure AJAX Spiralwound Gaskets are the - Gaskets you want. Get the Gaskets with built-in resilience for safer seals with lighter bolt-loads. The Gaskets that "breathe" with varying pressures and temperatures to keep joints tight under all operating conditions. The thrifty Gaskets that can be reused because they don't lose their resiliency under compression. Types for all standard flanges and for stationary and marine boilers and accessories. Made of plated low-carbon steel or stainless with fillers of Canadian or Blue African Asbestos. Industrial Distributors stock them for your convenience. Ask yours or write-- UNITED STATES GASKET FABBCATQtS "TEflOir &"Kft r FOB THE COBAI PROCESS & ELECTRONIC INDUSTRIES. CAMDEN 1 NEW JERSEY Representatives in Principal Cities Throughout the World My Hiycf&ii &G+te/i Though this happened on a ship, many shoreside engineers and designers may get some good ideas from it. Our ship, a large passenger ves sel, pulled into 'Frisco for repairs and refueling. The second night in port an oil tanker came along side with our fuel oil. We tied her up to our starboard side. I opened the loading valves and gave the engineer on the tanker the signal to start pumping. Then I sat back to relax before making my first round for soundings. I'd just settled myself comfortably when the quartermaster on watch came bouncing down the ladder yelling, "Mister, you're lousing up the harbor with fuel oil!" I yelled to the tanker engineer to stop his pumps. Then I shut our loading valves. The quarter master bung around until the valves were shut and then led me to our port side. Sure enough, the oil was there, polluting the harbor water. It took me awhile to learn how the oil got into the harbor instead of our tanks, but this is what hap pened: the last time we'd refueled was in Hawaii, on the port side. But the engineer on watch forgot to close his loading valves, so in 'Frisco, the oil just flowed into the manifold on the starboard side, out on the port. I caught the dickens but per sonally saw to it that check valves were installed on each side of the manifold before we sailed. Arnold de Groes .Yw York, .Y. Y. < I 5W Whot if your "biggest boner"? We'll pay ten dollars for eah one we publisn- euoep 1953