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...William Mansfield Clark, 51, professor of physiological chemistry at Johns Hopkins; the Nichols Medal of the American Chemical Society: for researches ''of incalculable value" to medicine (explanation of oxidation and deoxidation processes in the body; methods of determining the acid-alkali balance in water purification and sewage disposal). Dr. Owen Harding Wangensteen, 37, surgery professor at University of Minnesota's medical school; the Samuel D. Gross Prize in surgery ($1,500) of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery: for innovations in the treatment of intestinal obstructions. Percy White Zimmerman, 51, and Albert Edwin Hitchcock, 38, plant physiologists...
...Union Bag was severely deflated by the introduction of the kraft process, which is supposed to have been discovered by a Swedish workman who unwittingly treated pulp with an alkali instead of the usual acid. The result was called kraft-Swedish for "strength." Upshot was that Union Bag's sulphite pulp plants had to be scrapped. For five successive years, right through the gayest days of the Coolidge Boom, the company reported deficits. Then, having adjusted itself to the kraft order, Union Bag climbed out of the red in 1931, only to slip back the next dark year...
...current shot through a normal head. The difference is due to the swelling of the epileptic's brain, decided Drs. Ernst Spiegel & Mono, Spiegel-Adolf (wife) of Philadelphia. They found that they could shrink such brains and decrease convulsions by feeding epileptics meats and other acid-producing foods. Alkali producing foods, they found, excite epileptics, increase their tendency to fits...
...compared to the wage scales of a film company like Loews' were the other salaries listed by the SEC. Republic Steel upped President Tom M. Girdler from $117,420 to $129,372 per year, two vice presidents from $58,700 to $64,600. President Edwin Madison Allen of Mathieson Alkali worked for $86,700 in both 1933 and 1934. Donald L. Brown of reorganized United Aircraft will be paid $45,000. Salaries substantially the same in both years included President Walter Cabot Baylies of Boston's Edison Electric Illuminating: $32,000; Vice President Theodore D. Crocker of Northern States Power...
...addition to the more obvious theoretical and practical questions involved, the results should be of a significance to the questions of prolonged auoxaemia, depletion of the alkali reserve, the effects of training, the production of red cells, and the varieties of hemoglobin...