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...into the stalk from the tip across the wound gap. The fact that a special substance, instead of a vague irritant, was involved was first clearly demonstrated by Paál of Hungary. In 1925 Seubert of Germany found plant-stimulating substances outside of plants-in saliva, pepsin, malt extract, diastase. These substances were christened "auxins" by Kögl of Holland's Utrecht University, where much of the pioneer work on them was done. In 1928 a tall, dark young man named Fritz Warmolt Went, who began his botanical career at Utrecht under the tutelage of a distinguished...
...contraceptive is a synthetic, hormone-like substance to be administered hypodermically. It inhibits the production of ova, without which no woman can conceive. In this respect it differs from spermatoxin, an extract of spermatozoa, which renders a woman transiently infertile when injected into her arm like a vaccine. As long as her blood is stimulated by spermatoxin no spermatozoa can affect her and she cannot have babies. Not all women will endure injections of spermatoxin, because it may render them allergic and put them in a class with victims of hives...
...disappoint the admirers of Gypsy Rose Lee, whose sultry gifts are confined to such lines as "I'll cut your heart out and stuff it like an olive," You Can't Have Everything should satisfy almost everyone else. It gives the clowning Ritz Brothers the opportunity to extract the last zany twist from such sequences as playing a swing version of chopsticks, dressing as charwomen to break into the Y. W. C. A. To adept Song Pluggers Alice Faye and Tony Martin, Mack Gordon & Harry Revel have supplied a tiptop score of which the most singable numbers...
...rich radium deposit is one which yields 90 to 120 milligrams (.00315 to .0042 oz.) nearly pure radium bromide salt per ton of concentrated ore (50 tons of crude ore). From ore bodies of such richness in northwestern Canada the refining plant is able to extract one gram of commercially pure radium from 550 tons of mined ore. A San Diego mining engineer and chemist named F. S. Kearney, now working in Mexico, assayed Mrs. Bishop's ore at 130 milligrams of radium per ton. This high figure, Mrs. Bishop said, was confirmed when she sent a sample...
...British and the French Governments who recently asked Premier Paul van Zeeland of friendly Belgium to help them find an international formula to extract Europe from its present economic bog. Van Zeeland began by parleying with President Roosevelt (TIME, June 14). Last week as the Premier busied himself in Brussels, shaping up material he has gathered for presentation to European leaders, the King's letter came, as it was obviously intended to come, as a dramatic stroke to arrest world opinion, help pave the way for action. Next day in London the Laborite Daily Herald enthusiastically told His Majesty...