Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laundry, dyeing & cleaning, carbonated beverage, and linen supply industries (TIME, Aug. 7). Said Dr. Squires: "They tried to blacken my reputation but they couldn't do it." Said the prosecuting attorney: "The trial has served its main purpose. Since it started, there has been no bombing, acid throwing, window smashing or slugging." Said the jurymen, locked up since Jan. 19: "Hurray...
...born Greek who three years ago succeeded the late infamous Henri Desire Landru as France's most spectacular murderer when a M. Poncel returned from a vacation in Italy to his villa near Marseilles. M. Poncel found the dining room floor ruined by strange stains, a heap of acid-eaten rags near the garden hedge, and a horrid stinking mess in a corner of the garden. Georges Sarret had prepared carefully for his chosen profession of insurance murderer by studying medicine, chemistry and law at Marseilles. He also needed confederates. These he found in the persons of the Bavarian...
...bromine from the ocean on a commercial basis. Today his corporation, with Dow Chemical Co., operates a plant south of Wilmington, N. C. on the Cape Fear River which every day sucks in 30,000,000 gal. of sea water from which, with the aid of chlorine and sulphuric acid, it frees 15,000 lb. of bromine (worth 36 cents per lb.) for use in antiknock gasoline...
Ketones. Infections of the kidney and bladder tract are hard for doctors to treat. Drs. Arnold E. Osterberg and Henry F. Helmholz of the Mayo Clinic reported experiments showing that ketonic bodies in the blood, such as acetone, diacetic acid and beta-oxybutyric acid, will cure such infections if generated in sufficient quantities. Best diet for stimulating ketone production is high in fat, low in proteins and sugar. Ideal fat-protein-sugar proportion...
...anesthetic which thus delighted Baltimore surgeons with its speed and freedom from ether's nauseating aftereffect is called evipan. Invented in Germany, it belongs to the barbituric acid group. Because other intravenous anesthetics have proved difficult to control its U. S. manufacturer, a Manhattan chemical company, is having it thoroughly tested before placing it on the market...