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Victory. In advertisements, Lustron Corp.'s $8,000 five-room steel-enamel house looked bright enough. But until last week the prospects of producing many looked dark indeed. The steelmen who run the Department of Commerce's voluntary allocations had turned thumbs down on prefabricated housing ("not successful"). Last week, after intervention by Housing Administrator Raymond Foley and Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders, the committee handed out 58,000 tons of steel to prefabs. To Lustron (which got all but 10,000 tons of the allocation), that meant 4,800 houses...
Milhaud: Symphony No. 1 (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Darius Milhaud conducting; Columbia, 7 sides). France's Composer Milhaud, like Brahms, waited until he was past 40 to write his first major symphony. He finally wrote it in 1939, at 47. The result is technically brilliant, bright and dry as enamel. Symphonies for Small Orchestra (Concert Hall Society Chamber Orchestra, Darius Milhaud conducting; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). By comparison, these four little symphonies (Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5) seem like, and are, youthful practice flights. Performances: excellent...
...their front teeth. The dentists discovered that all of them had been addicted, for months or years, to lemon-sucking-or to an early morning drink of lemon juice and water. Some patients' teeth were worn down to the gums. Mayo's experts decided that their tooth enamel must have been eaten away by the citric acid in lemons...
...Columbia University's dental college, Dentist Daniel Ziskin has decided that concentrated lemon and grapefruit juice, both highly acid, do indeed soften tooth enamel. (Orange juice, less acid, seems to be safe.) But acid is not the only villain. The real damage is done by brushing acid-softened teeth with a stiff brush or gritty dentifrices. If not followed by too vigorous brushing, drinking diluted citrus juices once a day is perfectly all right, says Ziskin...
...tooth-decay preventive, Jay is experimenting with a six-weeks diet (starting with no sugar or carbohydrates and gradually increasing the allowance) which seems to discourage the enamel-eating lactobacilli for six months to two years afterward. (Jay guesses that a sugarless diet may encourage the growth of germs that fight lactobacilli.) The best recipe for good teeth: drink fluorine-containing water in childhood (TIME, April 24, 1944). If fluorine, which lactobacilli detest, is introduced into the enamel while the teeth are being formed, the teeth get permanent protection...