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...expectation that a war under way would use even more mercury than an arms race, mercury dealers pushed up the price in September to a 20-year high of $165 a flask (wrought-iron bottle containing 76 Ibs.), up from $84 prewar. Last week's average was only $5 under the best week in September. Marginal producers on the West Coast paid more attention to the second thought than the first, began to reopen long-idle mines...
...Clark University (Worcester, Mass.) Some years ago Dr. Pincus accomplished the first fertilization of mammalian ova in vitro-a polite way of saying that conception took place in a glass vessel. He took ova from a doe rabbit, sperm from a buck, mixed them in a culture flask, implanted the fertilized ova in another doe which, at term, produced a fine litter (TIME, March 12, 1934). Since then the scientist has been able, by skillful coddling, to keep fertilized ova alive for ten days in vitro before implantation in the mother...
...Here the Vagabond grinned, trying to wheedle a polite smile out of his listeners. "Wait until you see him going down Boylston Street to a football game. He'll probably have on a racoon coat and he'll look as though he ought to be carrying a silver hip-flask. His girl will be wearing an all-green outfit, even though she looks like the devil in green. Maybe he'll be shouting something about 'Men of Dartmouth...
...situation is not new, but each time it happens it is unforgettable to passengers. Sometimes they sit tight. Sometimes they get hysterical. The Frobisher's passengers provided a gay variation. Yankee John Anthony Celler, a tourist from New Haven, Conn., stood up. "Anybody got a flask or something?" he coolly inquired. "I'd like to celebrate this occasion." The equerry looked a bit startled, the businessmen surveyed him askance. But Mlle Anne Chagno of Paris came characteristically into the action. She broke out two bottles of champagne. The businessmen quickly found some tumblers. Yankee Celler popped the first...
Marooned on the deck of the wallowing ship, the crew ran up distress signals* on main-truck and foremast, slung the Stars and Stripes upside-down from the shrouds. Captain Milton dived into the flooded cabin, brought up a case of whiskey, some canned salmon, a flask of water. Diving down again, he found the ship's cat, Fluffy, on a shelf above water level in the cabin, brought her up in a sea bag, along with blankets, the ship's chronometer, a sextant, a flashlight, a picture of his wife...