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Myanesin, a new synthetic drug developed from glycerin, relaxes muscles of patients during operations. Since last September the drug's developer, Dr. Frank M. Berger, has been working with Dr. R. Plato Schwartz to find new uses for the drug. If it relaxes muscles during operations, the doctors reasoned, would it also work on muscles tied up by disease...
...concoction of hydrogen peroxide and glycerin, developed by Dr. Ethan Allen Town of Boston Dispensary, seems to be effective against a number of skin diseases and certain tubercular infections. The mixture has shown best results against diabetic ulcers, tuberculous neck glands, Vincent's angina, tonsillitis, impetigo, boils...
...small motors, refrigerators, washers, ironers, etc., from 10% to 60%. Zinc, copper, lead, and tin also zoomed. In the first two days of free trading, the prices of 28 such major commodities jumped (according to an OPA estimate) an average of 7.4%. Some of the leaps were fantastic. Example: glycerin, which had been controlled at 18? a pound, jumped 12? one day, 30? the next, was up to $1 by week's end. One paint company helplessly told customers: we'll send the paint, see how much it costs later...
...long as steel held the line, most automakers, biggest steel users, cautiously did the same, except for General Motors, Crosley and Willys-Overland. But they jittered at the soaring prices of some of their other raw materials (the increase in glycerin and other oils alone would add up to $5 to the price of cars). Like Ford (see Autos), most were still losing money. In hopes that the price rises would ease some of the shortages, they optimistically upped schedules to 94,000 cars and trucks for the week, hoped increased production would make up for the higher costs...
...whose eccentricity was to use only broken-down thoroughbreds to pull his wagon. Flo tried out as a dentist's assistant and a student nurse in Toronto before traveling to New York in 1906. It was a time when a woman's beauty equipment consisted chiefly of glycerin and rose water; for a woman to "paint" was almost as outrageous as it was for her to smoke. Flo Graham decided that the beauty business just needed selling. She borrowed $6,000 from her brother, paid it back in less than six months...