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Dripless Paint. An odorless paint that will not splash was put on sale by Superior Paint & Varnish Corp. of Chicago. The paint, which looks like thick whipped cream, thins out under the friction of the brush. Price: 1 gal...
Presently, voter apathy is so thick it can be cut with a knife. A recent Gal lup poll found that only 21% of voters had given "quite a lot" of thought to the coming election, while 19% had given it "some" thought and 60% "little or none." A year from now it may be hard to believe that the nation did not realize in advance that the 1954 election would set the political scene for 1956 and beyond...
...polio virus are added as a seed stock to each quart of tissue fluid. Back to the rocker go the bottles. The virus multiplies a thousandfold in the kidney cells, and after about four days the potentially deadly crop is ready for harvest. It is chilled in 2½gal. bottles for trucking from Toronto to Eli Lilly & Co. and to Parke, Davis...
Mixing the Vaccine. In a rambling pharmaceutical plant beside the Detroit River, the Parke. Davis technicians perform more alchemy. Using both Toronto-grown virus and their own crop, they filter the brew (to get rid of kidney cells, which might cause nephritis), make up 12½-gal. lots in steel tanks and add a dilute formaldehyde solution. When they are satisfied that the formaldehyde has killed every one of the billions of virus particles in the tank, they are ready to mix the vaccine...
There is a very funny picture playing at the Brattle Theatre this week. The longest of reading period assignments and most foul exam schedule imaginable should not keep any true lover of the constant guffaw away from His Gal Friday...