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...expand their tightened arteries when an attack starts, victims of angina carry with them tiny pills (containing from 0.0003 to 0.0006 of a gram) of nitroglycerin. These work in a flash, but their effect does not last long...
...Stanton-Lazarsfeld program analyzer is a simple device. Subjects sit in comfortable chairs, hold a pair of push buttons in their hands, and listen to a pro gram. When they like what they hear, they push the right-hand button. When they don't like it, they push the left button. Each button is electrically connected with a pen which draws a continuous line on a moving paper tape pulled under it at a constant speed of approximately one inch every five seconds. When a button is pressed, an electric magnet jogs the pen a quarter of an inch...
Champion to date of the 1942 season of honorary degrees is War Production Boss Donald M. Nelson. By this week he had four-from Harvard, Northwestern, Missouri, Pennsylvania Military College. Among others given honorary degrees last week: Mme. Chiang Kai-shek (in absentia), Raymond Gram Swing, Sumner Welles, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Frank Knox, Henry L Stimson, J. Edgar Hoover, Nicnolas Murray Butler...
...cause to crow last week. It signed a first-class commentator for September delivery. NBC's new man was old to radio-Mutual's purring, precise Raymond Gram Swing, who saw in NBC a chance for a bigger audience, a bigger salary...
...process seals the mercury in long sections of thin nickel tubing, feeds the tubing into a precision machine which nips off "mercury bombs" of specified length, carries the "bombs" under a magnetic device which picks out of line and discards any capsule holding even 1/1,000 gram less than the amount required...