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...Under her decks are 486 empty steel cylinders to carry back to Germany the first installment of U. S. gas. At 2,500 Ib. per sq. in. pressure, 5,600 cu. ft. of helium can be compressed into each cylinder. In the U. S. helium for medical treatments (asthma, croup), deep-water diving, laboratory experiments, is shipped 200,000 cu. ft. at a time in cylinders 40 ft. long, 4 ft. in diameter which travel four to a flatcar...
Because helium is light and therefore requires little effort to inhale, doctors have found it of value in treating asthma, croup, laryngitis and diphtheria when a constriction of the windpipe makes breathing difficult. It is also of value to deep-sea divers, as a 27-year-old engineer named Max Nohl demonstrated last week when he descended 420 ft. to the bottom of Lake Michigan. This was the deepest dive ever made in a diving suit.* An unofficial record of 361 feet was established in 1916 in Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay. Previous official record...
Life, however, was not always a bowl of cherries to these gourmands of other days if we can judge by certain sections of the cook books now in display. The 16th century Fannie Farmer did not overlook a few "infallible cures for corns, callous heels, croup, whooping cough" and minor spasms of indigestion which were the post requisites of these feasts...
...told to stay at home. In the spring, young Jen Shaw (Jean Muir) falls in love with Stan Janowski (Donald Woods) and Brother George's wife prepares to run away. In the summer young Ollie Shaw flirts with Doris and Brother George Shaw's children get the croup. In the autumn Ollie is sent away to town. In the winter Doris flirts with Stan while his barn burns. The spring is a peaceful season. Doris is about to go away with Stan, George Shaw's wife starts to have another baby and Mark Shaw (David Landau) declines...
...Porter soon went forth into the world and produced short-stories under the nom de plume O. Henry. The late Druggist Richardson remained behind the counter for 17 years and being a dyspeptic gentleman who with just cause abhorred ipecac (then the common remedy for colds), invented a Magic Croup Salve which he named after his brother-in-law, Dr. Joshua Vick. In time Druggist Richardson became a manufacturer and Vick's Magic Croup Salve became Vick's VapoRub. His two sons, H. Smith Richardson and Lunsford Richardson, inherited the company. By 1929 they had it earning...