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Chief of the Federal Food & Drug Administration, a pugnacious Kentucky lawyer named Walter Gilbert Campbell, has agents posted throughout the country, watching for just such pharmaceutical accidents. Those men last week confiscated every last flask of the Massengill "elixir" upon which they could lay their hands. A Federal agent at Bristol said to Chief Campbell: "The most amazing thing about the company was the total lack of testing facilities. Apparently they just throw drugs together, and if they don't explode they are placed on sale." Dr. Massengill cooperated with the Food & Drug men by sending warning telegrams...
President Dodds has shown that he meant no idle jest in his Opening Address when he deplored the "flask-toters and alcoholic" partisans who are mainly responsible for the exhibitions of ill-breeding which have become all too characteristic of intercollegiate football spectators...
...Flask of Wine, A Book of Verse--and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness...
...colleges first for the war and then for the peace which denied the glory of that war. He shows us professorial chairs being stuffed with industrial moneys, unorthodox belief being roughly wiped out by college officials under pressure from above. The whole era of Mencken, Babbitt, the hip flask and the Charleston is seen with as great a clarity as that afforded by Mr. Allen's now almost classic "Only Yesterday". This part of Wechsler's book is a vivid and illuminating bit of journalistic history...
...smell. But sharpness of smell is so inconstant and the weak human nose can detect such minute quantities of a substance, that precise measurement seemed hopeless. Then Dr. Elsberg tried having the subject hold his breath while whiffs of air saturated with coffee or lemon oil from a stoppered flask were pumped up the nostrils, directly against the ends of the olfactory nerves. He found that in normal persons a fairly constant and easily measurable quantity of scent-laden air was necessary to produce an impression. For coffee it was eight to nine cubic centimetres, for lemon...