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...Church was a momentous occurrence. At that meeting Dr. Victor George Heiser, Far East director of the Rockefeller Foundation and president of the International Leprosy Association, dramatically announced that leprosy is apparently being cured. In the process the lepers are dyed blue by injection into their veins of a dye called trypan-blue...
Trypan-blue has been used to kill the spindly, boring animalcules (trypanosomes) which cause sleeping sickness. It is also useful to kill the microbes of malaria. In the Federated Malay States, at the Sungei Buloh leper settlement Dr. Gordon A. Ryrie discovered that the blue trypan dye attacked the fatty bacilli present in leprosy and tuberculosis (the forms of the diseases are related). Other investigators confirmed Dr. Ryrie's work, among them cautious Dr. Heiser...
From red blood and green leaves he proceeded to find out why cornflowers are blue. The color of most flowers and fruits, he eventually demonstrated, depends upon a primary dye group, the anthocyanins. The free dye is violet-colored. Different conditions of alkalinity and acidity make flowers blue...
...worker, 14-year-old Peter Christopolus was rewarded for his "model behavior" this summer by getting his picture printed in the Boys' Home magazine, in overalls like the other orphans. The picture came to the attention of one Jean Strengs, French-born proprietor of a Paterson, N. J. dye works. Dyer Strengs was struck by Peter Christopolus' resemblance to his own son, who had been drowned at 17 a year before. He decided to adopt Peter, arranged for a six-week trial after which he might educate him, train him in the dye business, make him his heir...
...attracted by high prices, 600,000 bu. of Canadian rye had been bought for import (in spite of the duty of 40? a bu.), that buyers were eagerly negotiating for more rye in Argentina as well as Canada. ¶ For over a year Orlando Weber, president of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., held the New York Stock Exchange at bay. The Exchange wanted him to give more information to his stockholders (TIME, May 8) and he refused. The Exchange threatened to strike Allied's stock off the board. A group of Allied's stockholders began a revolt to elect...