Word: carbonization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lincoln Marshall proved?with special heating, evacuating and analyzing devices ?that gas thoroughly permeates metal. From a piece of molybdenum he extracted a speck of gas one-eighth the volume of a common pin, one 100-millionth of an ounce. Dr. Marshall found it a mixture of 43% carbon monoxide, 57% nitrogen...
Modern methods listed by psychiatrists of Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania, who are currently studying suicide problems, include hanging, drowning, inhaling gas, jumping from high places, cutting throat or wrists, piercing heart, shooting, poisoning. Doctors and chemists prefer poisons, policemen and soldiers firearms. Inhaling the carbon monoxide from a running motor's exhaust is an increasingly frequent method...
Night World (Universal) is a neat, legible carbon-copy of several other night club pictures. The night club's patrons, entertainers, chorus girls, doorman, policeman, gangsters, gamblers all get into the picture because they are all in the night club. Director Hobart Henley can thus change the subject whenever one set of characters begins to get dull, as in Vicki Baum's kaleidoscopic Grand Hotel. Mae Clarke is a square-shooting chorus girl who talks like a Girl Scout. She pities a young patron (Lew Ayres) who is the scion of a famed murder case and drinks...
...patented trade name of the product of Dryice Corp. It has become the popular name for the products of its competitors as well. Dry-Ice is solid carbon dioxide, an efficient refrigerant. Last week Dryice Corp., pioneer in the field and largely owned by Capitalist August Heckscher, merged with its old rival Solid Carbonic Co., a concern closely affiliated with the du Pont interests. Although the merged companies will control more than half of the industry's capacity, they will not lack formidable competition Much of it will come from powerful-privately-held Michigan Alkali Co., a rich concern...
...practice of making a child cry several times a day is often ineffective in over coming atelectasis (imperfect expansion of the lungs at birth). The old barbarous and often ineffective methods of resuscitating the newborn by swinging, spanking and dipping in cold water are being replaced by inhalation of carbon dioxide. Many babies that cannot be resuscitated in any other way are thus saved. In maternity hospitals, where this measure has been adopted for those who breathe poorly, [infant] mortality from pneumonia has ceased...