Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What had gone wrong? One guess: overdosing. Children whose deaths could definitely be attributed to the drug had all received more than the recommended amount (half a suppository each 24 hours). Two of the preparation's ingredients-bismuth and heptadienecarboxylic acid-are dangerous except in very small doses...
...last week, in the Elgin Watch factory in Elgin, ILL., a brand-new watch was dropped into a boiling bath of nitrohydrochloric acid. In a few minutes all of the watch was dissolved except the jewels -and the mainspring. It was as bright, hard and flexible as ever...
...this acid test, Elgin National Watch Co. demonstrated its new spring, which it called the biggest thing in watchmaking since the introduction of jewel bearings in 1704. Mainsprings have been the source of about half of all watch troubles. Elgin bragged that its new spring, made of a nonmagnetic alloy, will eliminate almost all these troubles...
Right Combination. If the body could be stimulated to produce more histamine, Wirtschafter reasoned, many ailments due to constriction or blocking of blood vessels might be easily cured. In the test tube, histamine can be made by combining two well-known substances-vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and an amino acid called histidine. Would it work in the body? First on guinea pigs and then on his patients, Wirtschafter tried intravenous injections of vitamin C, followed by intramuscular injection of a histidine solution. Sure enough, it worked: blood tests showed an increase in histamine...
...tedious to sit in on as any other family quarrel. Moreover, the picture is not as distinguished musically as might be expected. One thing the show does have, which most such movies lack: a feeling for the raffish professionalism of commercial jazzmen. Sample: Helen O'Connell's acid, sardonic singing of Green Eyes...