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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newark, N.J., 15-year-old Bill Mc-Henry went to school with a .32 caliber revolver and a handful of shells, in due time opened fire on his shop instructor in manual training class. His three shots went wild...
Right Combination. If the body could be stimulated to produce more histamine, Wirtschafter reasoned, many ailments due to constriction or blocking of blood vessels might be easily cured. In the test tube, histamine can be made by combining two well-known substances-vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and an amino acid called histidine. Would it work in the body? First on guinea pigs and then on his patients, Wirtschafter tried intravenous injections of vitamin C, followed by intramuscular injection of a histidine solution. Sure enough, it worked: blood tests showed an increase in histamine...
...Columbus had sailed due west, the "prevailing westerlies" of the North Atlantic might have battered his caravels back to Europe. But by luck, sailor's hunch, or a simple desire to sail in warm weather, he detoured south to the Canary Islands, picked up favorable winds. Since then, transatlantic sailing ships have used the Columbus system, often sweeping miles out of their straight-line courses to take advantage of friendly winds...
...needs to know the barometric pressure throughout the flight. His ordinary altimeter (essentially an aneroid barometer) is not enough, for its readings vary with pressure changes due to either altitude or weather. The problem is solved by the radio altimeter, which measures the plane's altitude electronically. Its readings, combined with barometric altimeter readings, give the actual pressure of the air through which the plane is flying...
...seemed to think that the U.S. was in for another steep price rise all around. Wheat and hogs made the headlines. But there were plenty of reasons why commodities in general would not follow. Hogs had been going their own wild way for months (see chart). Some metal prices, due to the worldwide shortages, might well rise some more-and stay up. But food was something else again. Wheat was up because of 1) a shortage of freight cars and 2) Herbert Hoover's recommendation that food exports to Europe be stepped up (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...