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Andrew, born in Budapest and a resident of the U.S. for only seven years, was too surprised to make a thank-you speech. He had found three commercial substitutes for inflammable ethyl ether. Being the youngest of the finalists, he had not expected to win. Said he: "I bet some body a dollar I wouldn't, so I'd be sure to get something out of the deal...
...regularity with which the automobile kills him, maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it into his garage as fondly as an Arab leading a prize mare into his tent. He woos it with Simoniz, Prestone, Ethyl and rich lubricants-and goes broke trading it in on something flashier an hour after he has made the last payment...
...Americans annually. Yale's Dr. Clyde L. Deming reported that massive doses of the female hormone estrogen (instead of the small doses previously used) help four cases out of five and often prolong life. At the University of Chicago, three researchers found that a drug called ethyl carbamate is also effective; it relieves pain, reduces the size of the cancer. But unless cautiously given, the drug may be fatal...
...Once, he shot up to 550 miles an hour, prudently throttled back to avoid crashing into the danger zone of compressibility near the speed of sound (763 m.p.h. at sea level). Then, with his fuel gone (at top speed the XS-1 would gulp up its four tons of ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen in 2½ minutes), he glided down...
Died. Thomas Midgley Jr., 55, discoverer of tetraethyl lead for antiknock gasoline, vice president of Ethyl Gasoline Corp., president of the American Chemical Society; of accidental strangulation, by a self-devised harness for getting in & out of bed since he was invalided in 1940 by infantile paralysis; in Worthington. Ohio...