Word: alkalis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...