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...widower with one son, James Jr., who after a minor diplomatic career died in 1927. James Roosevelt took his bride across the Hudson to the Hyde Park house where Franklin was born 51 years ago. He and his mother nearly died as the result of an overdose of chloroform. In his nursery he first met and played with his cousin Anna Eleanor Roosevelt who later became his wife. With his well-to-do parents, he made frequent trips abroad, generally to Nauheim where his elderly father took the cure. James Roosevelt, every inch the country squire, died during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: My Boy Franklin | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

...Woolsey's uproarious, inane vehicles, in which the two protagonists get railroaded into jail and proceed to win the football game in an inter-prison league. Stadium tactics are hardly in order when our two heroes let loose their bag of tricks, not the least among which are a chloroform-soaked handkerchief and a boomerang pigskin...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/18/1932 | See Source »

...explosion of anesthetics." The report noted that "the perfect form of anesthesia, free from all dangers, has not yet been discovered." And: "The chief hazards . . . that have to be compared are fatal failure of respiration, syncope [serious fainting] and collapse, postanesthetic necrosis [decay] of the liver (chiefly from chloroform), post-operative pneumonia, persistent hiccup, flares and fires from ether, the bursting of cylinders containing any gas under pressure, and particularly cylinders of oxygen or nitrous oxide if the valve is oiled, and, finally, explosions in anesthetic apparatus in which ethylene or ether is administered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lung Explosion | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...product he called hematine. Or ganic chemists are now experimenting with the substance, using it upon animals to de termine how doctors may employ it to cure human disease. Sir Chandrasekhara Ven kata Raman discovered in 1928 that when monochromatic light shines on a trans parent substance like quartz, chloroform, water, the wavelength of some of the scattered light is changed. Thus what was originally a pure yellow may con tain green, blue. This is now known as the Raman effect, has been used as a proof of the new quantum theory of light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blood & Light | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...Some Dow products: calcium chloride, used for refrigeration; diethylaniline, used in the dye industry; industrial chloroform, used by dry-cleaners and for medicinal purposes; ethyl chloride, used in antiknock gasoline and to make rubber more flexible; ferric chloride, used in photoengraving; phenol, used in making synthetic resins like Bakelite; acetic anhydride, used in the rayon industry; sodium sulphide, used in tanning; epsom salt; acetyl salicylic acid (aspirin). It also manufactures insecticides, aromatic chemicals, magnesium metal, alloys. ?Chemical Markets Medal awarded by Chemical Markets magazine; Perkin Medal, by Society of Chemical Industry, American Chemical Society, Societe de Chimie Industrielle, American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Midland, Mich. | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

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