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...five days before a scheduled fight with Light Heavyweight Champion John Henry Lewis; after three blood transfusions and five days under an oxygen tent; at Orange, N. J. When told that his blood transfusions were injections of salt, impatient Tony, tired of being flat on his back with "this ammonia," growled: "Why can't Mary [his wife] put the salt in the soup instead of punching me full of holes like a free ticket to a fight." ¶ Seattle's Al Hostak, 22-year-old pugilist: the middleweight championship of the world; by knocking out Champion Freddie Steele...
...grams of heavy nitrogen in 2½% concentration, 400 grams of lower concentrations. To obtain it they used a 35-ft. vertical tube designed by Columbia's George B. Pegram for the separation of heavy oxygen. The tube contains 1,200 steel cones. A gaseous compound of ammonia, rich in nitrogen, passes up through the tube; some condenses, trickles down and with each fall from cone to cone the concentration of heavy nitrogen becomes richer...
...Imperfectly understood, death by bee sting is thought due to a special poison secreted by particular insects, possibly diseased. Apisination should be treated by gently removing the stinger, washing the wound with a weak solution of ammonia or soda, applying antiseptic. Bleeding should be encouraged...
...retaliated by playing raucous Victor records from a loudspeaker atop its plant. Music failed as a pacifier, however, when RCA began employing strikebreakers. Pickets jabbed girl employes with pins, hurled eggs filled with paint. From the factory non-strikers heaved back red pepper, hot metal, light bulbs loaded with ammonia...
...boomed the Koppers business because it cut off the German supply of such explosive coal derivatives as ammonia, benzol, toluol. For three years Koppers' Rust built a coke plant every 60 days, a benzol-toluol plant every six weeks. Since these plants needed structural steel, Mr. Rust drew in the Pittsburgh steel team of Charles Donnell Marshall and Howard Hale McClintic. Today the parent Koppers Co. controls at least $400,000,000 worth of properties, has only 16 stockholders. The Mellons own a clear 50% of Koppers' stock, Mr. Marshall 16%, Mr. McClintic 9%, the Rust family about...