This was the best cover we produced under my editorship. It was clean, crisp, and had impact. Acetylene is a welding and cutting gas with a lot of issues surrounding it. This issue focused on them and offered welding supply and gas vendors answers for the difficulties surrounding it.      Acetylene does not being acetylene. Under compression it will spontaneously decompose into simpler gases . . . with explosive results. In order to compress it, gas cylinder are filled with a porous plaster-like substance and then filled with acetone. Under those conditions, acetylene can be compressed.      Generating acetylene causes the creation of a mildly caustic calcium substance. The article here describes how distributors can deal with the substance and profit from it.

Besides technical articles, GWD also included "soft" subjects that would assist distributors in running their business.      In this issue there were two articles I wrote. The first was about expanding or contracting the number of employees at a distributorship. The second article was associated with that topic: how to hire employees and let them go when necessary.      The rightsizing article is here. The hiring and firing article is here.