Word: ammonias
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...Clayton Clawson with their revolvers. "Don't shoot!" warned Clawson. "You'll all go to hell along with me!" Pow, pow, pow. Down went Clayton Clawson, neatly pinked in arms and legs. The bottle crashed to the floor, where it gave off an odor of household ammonia...
...white trucks and white-clad salesmen are spotless. For two days each spring the salesmen go to school. There they are instructed to bathe and change their shoes & socks daily, wash their feet with borax water, Epsom salts or ammonia. Each morning a salesman gets a fresh uniform. In making a sale he salutes, says brightly, "Good Humor, may I serve you, sir?" When possible he gets in a word about regulation-size brick ice cream to take home...
...could do with their minicams. All of the 300 prints on view were enlarged and unretouched from the original postage stamp negatives. They represented the work of 25 photographers, ranging from socialite amateurs to Professional Photographer Thomas D. McAvoy of Washington, whose candid-camera shots of President Roosevelt (on ammonia-sensitized film) first appeared in TIME two months...
Even serious amateurs have known for years that ammonia sensitization of motion picture film was practical, even if somewhat tricky, and I am amazed that no news photographer has tried it before...
Cameraman McAvoy used a Leica camera with a Summar f2 lens, worked with the lens wide open at one-eighth second speed. His film was Du Pont Superior panchromatic, hypersensitized to half again its rated speed by exposing it to fumes of the strongest ammonia obtainable in a closed box for four minutes. Caution to novices: Film so treated should be used within eight hours. After that period it will not only lose its extra sensitivity, but may deteriorate below its original condition...