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...city smoke. Physicians called it "anthracosis." But modern chemistry shows that the black stuff is not carbon. It is a complex "heterocyclic" compound which does many things that carbon does not - e.g., it gives off an animal smell when burned, swells up in jellylike masses when placed in alkali, forms colloidal (finely subdivided) solutions, turns white and fluffy when acted on by alkali plus chlorine. Therefore, concluded Dr. Georgine A. Moerke of Detroit's Municipal Tuberculosis Sanatorium, though some sort of lung irritation may be involved, the black lung deposit is not pure carbon breathed in from outside...
...Mathieson Alkali announced that its new Lake Charles, La. synthetic salt cake plant would start operations about November 1, thus making the U. S. independent of foreign (especially German) supplies. Chief use of salt cake (sodium sulfate): kraft paper manufacture. >Paperboardcreditors' recoveries on Ivar Kreuger's great debacle...
...Franklin Roosevelt's enemies to the point where even critics of noisy Mr. Dies and friends of Mr. Roosevelt did not dare vote against the former. From an obscure eight-year man in the House, with more of Washington's shoe-polish than of Texas' alkali on his boots. Martin Dies had, with all his unfairness as a prosecutor and ineptitude as an investigator, become the Opposition's favorite splinter in the Administration's fundament. His continuance as an inquisitor specifically demonstrated other things...
...canal is a farm. We carry it on our books at $4,000. Now if they will loan me 8,000 I will gladly "sell" it to the PWA and they can put a lot of men to work on it. By draining the alkali spot it can be made into a beautiful park or what...
...container to diffuse the chemicals through the solution. But he argues, against the companies, that no formula works well for all plants, all climates, all conditions: and that even if they made a great variety of formulae there are other factors such as temperature and acid-alkali balance which must be thoroughly studied for successful hydroponics. Also, in his kindly if eccentric way,, he accuses them of victimizing "poor people" by selling chemicals worth a few cents at fancy prices ranging from...