Word: becks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody who is anybody in the rich hierarchy of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers knows that tough Dave Beck has been angling for years to take Dan Tobin's throne whenever vain, old (72) King Dan decides to step down...
...time last week, it looked as if Dave Beck had finally made it. As everybody expected, Uncle Dan made him the union's executive vice president-the crown-princely post which Tobin and Beck created at the last Teamsters' convention (TIME, Aug. 25). Teamster courtiers were sure that this was it; the boys were even trying to figure out who would get Dave's mahogany-paneled office in Seattle, where he rules a Teamster duchy of eleven western states...
...does the nose do the smelling? The "smell receptors," patches of specialized cells in the upper nose, lie across air passages from tissues which are normally cooler than they are. Therefore the cells radiate heat waves across the air stream. Beck & Miles theorized that when pure air is passing through the nostrils, the cells give no signal; they are getting rid of their heat at the standard rate. But when an odorous vapor is present in the air stream it absorbs certain wavelengths of the heat which the cells are radiating. The cells can feel the change and the stimulus...
Cockroach Teaser. To check the theory Beck & Miles started with cockroaches, which wear their smellers conveniently on their antennae outside their bodies. They put oil of cloves vapor (attractive to cockroaches) behind a gas-tight window of material transparent to infrared. The cockroaches responded to it just about as strongly as if the barrier were not there. When a thin sheet of glass (opaque to infrared) was added to the barrier, the cockroaches showed no more interest in the window than when there was no oil of cloves behind...
Vapor Blends. Human beings are harder to test. Their smelling apparatus is deeply buried in the upper nasal passages, where it cannot be blocked off from the vapors by heat-transparent barriers. Beck & Miles hope to lick this problem somehow when they get an infra-red spectrometer for studying the wavelength of fragrances...