Word: gelatine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early next month Dill, who has been with the Fatigue Laboratory ever since its organization in 1927, will start feeding his guinea pigs an ounce of gelatin a day. Not in dessert form, this gelatin is dry and must be washed down with cold water...
...amount of gelatin in the ordinary dessert, he pointed out, is probably less than one tenth of an ounce. No one knows the exact chemical formula of gelatin; it is a complex protein containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen...
Twenty-two students, mostly Freshmen, have volunteered to act as guinea pigs in a novel experiment which the University is sponsoring, David B. Dill, professor of Industrial Physiology, announced yesterday. The object of the experiment is to determine whether gelatin is the miracle food it is claimed...
...Mark McDonough Bracken of Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute reported another "miracle drug" for treatment of pneumonia, cheaper than and just as effective as sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine, but much safer. No kin to the older drugs, tongue-tripping hydroxy-ethylapocupreine is derived from quinine, is usually swallowed in gelatin capsules. Of 500 pneumonia patients treated at Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital, said Chief Physician William Watt Graham MacLachlan, less than 23% died. Usual Pittsburgh pneumonia-case death rate: 45%. Before advising other physicians to lay in a winter's supply of hydroxyethylapocupreine, the cautious investigators, remembering the unqualified praise...
Ever since Oct. 24, 1929, crinkle-headed, crinkle-mouthed Crooner Rudy Vallée has spread his oleaginous voice on the air waves for Standard Brands Inc. (Fleischmann's Yeast, Royal Gelatin). Their partnership is radio's longest. Radio's first big variety show made Yale-bred Rudy Vallée (real name: Hubert Pryor Vallée) radio's first big-money performer, began radio's first national song craze (I'm Just a Vagabond Lover), first exploited the radio talents of Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Alice Faye, Joe Penner, Frances Langford...