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Agar is used chiefly as a culture medium in bacteriology because it keeps its form at higher temperatures than gelatin. Petroleum-agar, a familiar household intestinal lubricant, contains the substance in small quantities. It is useful in the making of glue, transparent silk, paper...
Glue Retrenchment. Better to concentrate on the glue business, American Glue Co. last week announced plans to sell its gelatin plants and business to a subsidiary of Eastman Kodak Co. for $2,300,000. Previously, Eastman was one of American Glue's biggest gelatin customers. This follows closely on American Glue's sale of its abrasive business to Minneapolis Mining & Manufacturing Co. and Carborundum...
...Against the Food Law. Specific charges: Fruits are dried by sulfur dioxide; maple sugar often contains 80% cane sugar: prunes often are glazed with glucose, a bacteria breeder: cider is often adulterated with benzoate of soda, as is catsup; jam may be made of low-grade fruit filled with gelatin and water; ice cream is sometimes made of starch and gelatin...
...only eight in the world. Technicolor, Inc. owns exclusive rights to its process - not the best process yet discovered for taking pictures in color, but the only one that has been made commercially practical. In the special camera which takes two negatives simultaneously the films coated with a tough gelatin emulsion pass through filters of red and green dyes. It has recently become possible by expert color planning of costumes, settings, to reproduce nearly perfectly all colors of the spectrum except yellow, which still gives trouble. Technicolor Inc. now manufactures one camera per week, rents the cameras, cameramen and color...
...heavy barrage of water, start to work their way toward the centre of an oil fire. They were Mack and Fred Kinley, famed for their fire-fighting technique. After two days of slow progress, the Kinleys succeeded in removing the twisted debris of the derrick and in placing a gelatin bomb near the well's flame-spouting mouth. The same moment that an electric contact ignited the bomb a special battery of boilers threw live steam on the blaze, snuffed it out. Grim and taciturn, the Kinley boys glanced up as the explosion took place, then plodded away without...