Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Promotion of sales in such regions as the South, where dairy production is low, and the price of fluid milk almost twice as high as in dairy-rich Minnesota, Wisconsin and adjacent states...
...since the High Priests of Thebes labored lovingly over the corpses of Libyan Pharaohs has there been such big news in the embalming business. In Manhattan last week, Dr. Carlos José Rodriguez Fernández, a Venezuelan dentist, announced that he has concocted "a fluid which will destroy putrefaction from the face of the earth." He has the well-preserved carcasses of a donkey, a dog and a 1,500-lb. horse once ridden by Venezuela's late President Delgado-Chalbaud as mute monuments to his success...
Until he gets a patent, Dr. Rodriguez will only say that his fluid is a fast-acting dehydrant and powerful disinfectant. It can be injected intramuscularly intra-arterially, or simply sprayed on the body to be preserved. According to Dr Rodriguez, it will be useful in preserving bodies on a battlefield, in criminal investigations, in autopsies and, of course in embalming. Medical schools will be saved the expense of pickled cadavers...
...this reason, the Harvard group specializes in problems of fluid dynamics and aerodynamics. Such practical subjects as aircraft structures can be learned by cross registration at the school down the river...
...claims, she felt the strength of his proffered hand. "Let's try again," he said, and made another gesture. Again the woman felt an invisible but powerful force flowing from his fingertips. Thus, says D'Angelo, he discovered that he was a battery of healing "magnetic fluid...