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...violent attack of the jitters, finally brings on complete paralysis and death. Oddly, the pure chemical has little effect; it is good only in an oil solution or when mixed with inert powder. The usual dose is 1% to 5% DDT, dissolved in kerosene or mixed with a dust filler...
...when, as the youngest student at the University of Ghent, he developed Velox paper, a photographic milestone which killed tintypes and netted him a reputed $1,000,000 from Eastman Kodak. Baekeland made possible the "improbable sandwich" (plywood) by his work in 1912 on a synthetic resin filler. He was also honored for : separation of cadmium and copper, oxidation of hydrochloric acid under light, dissociation of nitrate of lead, industrial electrolysis of alkali chlorids...
...What would the avoid readers of the local news want to hear about the life and loves of the inmates of Briggs Hall? Were they truly interested in life among the WAVES or are they polite only in surrendering such precious space. Or could be they use us for filler...
Some reconstruction work will be in store for Naval Supply officers, but the men were advised to "get the South Seas coconuts out of your hair, since you are here to learn your duties as general supply and disbursing officers, and not to become "form filler outers" or island chieftains...
There are odd plants unimportant in acreage but vital in the war : quick-growing Russian dandelions for rubber, cattails and milkweed to be used as filler in life preservers, henbane used as a sedative...