Word: gelatine
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...century-old gadget that looked like a wafer machine) that no two capsules had the same dosage of tin salt and "vitamin F." When the tin began oxidizing, further increasing its poisonous effect, the manufacturers merely noted that the ingredients became darker, and added artificial coloring to the gelatin coating. The ironic climax of the toxicologist's testimony: a slide demonstrating how staphylococci, which can be destroyed by antibiotics, actually proliferated and prospered when treated with Stalinon...
...Cash men were not licked. To keep the ink from joining the clay, they dissolved it in oil and churned it into microscopic droplets in a solution of gelatin and other gummy colloids. Then they caused the gelatin to precipitate on the oil droplets, enclosing them in capsules only one ten-thousandth inch in diameter. This trick solved the problem. The capsules and clay can be on the same side of the paper, but the paper remains white until pressure of a pencil or impact of a typewriter breaks the capsules; then the ink mixes with clay and turns blue...
Died. S. Z. ("Cuddles") Sakall, 62, gelatin-jowled, Hungarian-born Holly wood character actor (Casablanca, Small Town Girl) famed for his heavily accented manglings of the English language ("No, no, no. Inside iss not; you must quick stay out!"); of heart disease; in Los Angeles...
...everything from making a diving lung to training a seal, ran a 3-D section on how to run a buzz saw, deliberately left out the 3-D glasses but provided instructions on three ways to make a pair. One way: "Dissolve an envelope of unflavored dessert gelatin in 3 oz. warm water. Heat in double boiler until dissolved. Add seven drops of food dye to a teaspoonful, and pour carefully onto enameled jar lid. Let harden 24 hours before peeling off ... Cut out two frames and cement your cutout filters between them...
When all these facts were known, the records went to the foundation, which checked each victim's syringe number against the manufacturer's list to see whether the child had had G.G. or gelatin. The results reported by Dr. Hammon were heartening: of more than 27,000 children who received gamma globulin, only 2 developed paralytic polio; of an equal number who received gelatin, 64 suffered some paralysis. And, Dr. Hammon added, it looks as though the attacks were milder and shorter-lived for children who had G.G. than for the others...