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...Gall from Henry. Under this plan, the bookkeeping cost of Fontana to Kaiser would be $44 million. But his out-of-pocket cost would be only $12 million. That was all he would have left from the $44 million shipyard profit after taxes, if he could not apply the sum against Fontana...
Fields for Research. Dr. Ivy's colleagues consider him one of the nation's top physiqlogists. He is an expert on stomach ulcers (TIME, April 28, 1941), aviation medicine (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941), cancer (TIME, Dec. 16, 1946), analgesia (pain killers), gall-bladder and liver complaints, diseases of old age. His proudest achievement: discovery of a hormone which he thinks shows promise as a stomach-ulcer cure (the hormone: enterogastrone, extracted from hog intestines...
...fake place kick, canny director of shifty gridiron maneuver built around "a punt, a pass and a prayer"; longtime (1901-27) University of Michigan coach and athletic director (1921-41) whose point-a-minute teams made football history during the first five years of the century; of a gall-bladder ailment; in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...using this principle, says hearty Jean Le Gall of the French Bureau of Fisheries, it may be possible to develop a practical, commercial fish-ASDIC. The captain of a fishing boat equipped with such a device would need to do little guessing. He would turn on his ASDIC, and all fish within range would echo back, "Here...
Several observers, M. Le Gall among them, have seen schools of fish turn toward the ASDIC-emitting vessel. Why they do it, he does not know, or even whether they do it regularly. He intends to find out. But if fish do-voilà! In future, schools of herring may be seduced by ASDIC right into kippering plants...