Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before the War platinum rose to $45 an oz. Russia produced 95% of it, recovered up to 300,000 oz. a year. The War shut off the Russian supply, sharply increased the demand, for platinum is used not only as a catalyst in the manufacture of nitrates and sulphuric acid, but also in the detonating devices of shells. In the U. S. the Wartime price was fixed at $105 an oz., and newly developed deposits in Colombia could not fill the demand. After the War, when price-fixing ended, platinum rocketed above $170. Then in the early...
...little of William Edgar Borah since they first elected this Illinois-born lawyer to the U. S. Senate in 1906. He owns no residence in Idaho. Rarely has he risen on the Senate floor to speak out for Idaho's sectional interests. Last week Senator Borah knew the acid test had come for this absentee political landlordship. Did Idaho Republicans think his reputation for Senatorial eloquence and independence worth a sixth term...
When Alabama's poliomyelitis ("polio") epidemic intensified, Governor Bibb Graves ordered all inmates in State institutions to be given an immunizing nasal spray (picric acid + sodium alum), made it possible for State employes to have the same treatment for 10?. Taking advantage of his own proposition, Governor Graves called Dr. H. G. Camp, Chief State Prison Physician, into his office, had his own nostrils well flushed...
...American Chemical Society's Journal by Dr. Russell E. Marker and his associate, Thomas S. Oakwood, of Pennsylvania State College. From yeast Researchers Marker & Oakwood obtained ergosterol, an organic compound related to Vitamin D-producing cholesterol. From an ergosterol derivative, which they acetylated, oxidized with chromic acid, hydrolized and distilled, they built up the white crystals of theelin...
...thoroughly. Then bathe it in lukewarm (not hot) water and paint it with iodine. And don't worry. You are in no danger. If you are afraid the biter had rabies-which he almost never has-use the same treatment but paint the wound with carbolic acid instead of iodine...