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Last month, in Gowanda, N. Y., died a man who had made between $18,000,000 and $25,000,000 out of glue. His name was Richard Wilhelm, and few people outside Gowanda had ever heard of him. Except for a few shares of preferred stock, he owned Peter Cooper Corp. outright, and that company makes more animal glue (a $17,000,000 a year business) than all its competitors combined...
Last week in the British Lancet, Zoologists J. Z. Young and P. B. Medawar of Oxford University suggested an easier means of mending torn nerves: a biological "glue...
...prepare a glue, the scientists withdrew blood from an artery of a young cock, spun it in a centrifuge. The heavy red blood cells were thrown away and the clear plasma packed on ice where it stayed fresh for six weeks. Into the plasma the experimenters poured a few drops of chicken embryo extract, "a powerful clotting agent...
...firm jelly which stuck to the nerves and united the stumps. The jelly held for several days, long enough for the growing nerves to twine themselves on to the cut ends, like vines on a trellis. Healing took about ten days. Next step: use of the blood glue on torn human nerves...
...final architectural answer.* But together they tot up to a highest common denominator of good U. S. design. Laymen who looked at them could see the shape of housing things to come: a decline of the dining room, an increasing use of plywood-the club sandwich of wood and glue that can lick its weight in steel...