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Valerian is a cheesy-smelling sedative prepared from an herb root. Last year chemists compounded it with zinc or ammonia, loaded the mixture with ether, sealed it in glass thermos bottles. About five months ago Chicago thugs, hired by racketeering labor unionists, began smashing such thermos bottles inside factories and showrooms. When the highly volatile ether spreads through the room, bearing molecules of the valerian compound, the compound penetrates carpets, garments, walls, floors. Overwhelming is its lasting stench...
...high, sharp smell of the ammonia-valerian compound is bad enough. Far worse is the low, heavy, dirty odor of the zinc-valeric bomb, comparable only to the concentrated essence of a marching army's foot-smell...
Aboard the ship Sailor Cowart spurned spirits of ammonia. Said he: "Gimme something to eat." He set off immediately on a curiosity tour of the Akron. After the ship was successfully moored later that evening, Sailor Cowart stubbornly refused to tell his story to reporters, despite the friendly coaxing of Commander Rosendahl. A welterweight boxer out for the All-Navy championship, he said: "I'll have to see my manager before I talk." His manager sold the story to the highest bidder, Hearst's Universal Service...
...tycoon, great maker of vacuum cleaners and automatic iceboxes. He was standing beside the new refrigerator he had begun to manufacture. Mr. Sloan noted that it had no moving parts, made no noise, worked by means of a little gas flame applied to a solution of water and ammonia...
Blocky, bristly Professor Bosch was a collaborator of Dr. Fritz Haber, whose process for extracting nitrogen from the air was recognized by the Nobel award of 1918. To utilize the Haber-process nitrogen Dr. Bosch designed a mechanism for the industrial production of ammonia, combining air-nitrogen with hydrogen under a pressure of 200 atmospheres at a temperature of 500-600° C. in the presence of a catalyst. As manager of the Badische Anilin-& Soda-Fabrik he built the Oppau ammonia works, without which Germany, cut off from nitrate-producing Chile, might have lost...