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...justice to one of America's most famed trainers of athletes, the late Knute Rockne, who for years before his leath insisted on the use of citrocarbonate, which is an alkalizer, for just this purpose throughout the athletic department at Notre Dame University. Often the consumption of alkali there amounted to 100 lb. in a year, which seems to indicate Mr. Rockne's belief in the alkalinization theory was established a number of years prior to its publication in Germany...
...drought in the Dakotas. Of this "gem among phony pictures," the Fargo Forum declared: "There never was a year that this scene couldn't be produced in North Dakota, even in years when rain- fall levels were far above normal. What we see here is a typical alkali flat, left when melting snow water and spring rains had passed. . . . Without difficulty one can find these in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Indiana wherever one chooses. The skull? Oh, that's a movable 'prop' which comes in handy for photographers who want to touch up their pictures with...
Confronted with such publicity, RA's Photographic Chief Edwin Locke quickly admitted that "one view of the skull was taken on alkali ground and then moved about ten feet onto grassy ground that shows in the first picture and rephotographed there. I can't see how that can be called a fake." Chief Locke added that the pictures were made in Pennington County, S. Dak. last...
...anchor in Britain by buying a half interest in a Welsh concern making phenol (pure carbolic acid). In 1929 Monsanto absorbed Rubber Service Laboratories with a plant in Nitro, W. Va. for producing chemicals used in rubber processing. Same year Monsanto acquired the Buffalo, N. Y. plant of Mathieson Alkali Works and Merrimac Chemical Co. at Everett, Mass., oldest and largest New England manufacturer of heavy chemicals for the textile, paper and tanning industries. Monsanto has lost money in only three years since it was founded. The only deficit since 1904 was in the post-War depression. In 1929 earnings...
...Paris Mlle Jeanne Levy explained to the French Academy of Sciences why bicarbonate of soda helps hangover sufferers. Her experiments on alcoholized rats persuaded her that it was not a matter of acid-alkali balance. The carbonated rats breathed faster than normally, and rapid, deep breathing is known to pass alcohol quickly out of the body by way of the lungs...