Word: grams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Propaganda Men. The propaganda content in this tonnage of Government publicity usually runs at the proportion of less than one gram per pound. Occasionally it assays much higher. Last February the Bituminous Coal Commission issued one famous release in which a Cleveland city official was described as "coloring deeply" when replying to a Commissioner's question at a hearing. Washington correspondents stirred up such a row that the author of the release was fired...
...southeast lay a huge clod of stone and metal. Exactly where it was, only one person thought he knew. In 1859 Dr. John Evans, a U. S. Government geologist, stumbled on a meteoritic body, almost entirely buried, whose mass he estimated at 22,000 Ib. A 25-gram sample was sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. The meteorite was classified as a pallasite-a mixture of olivine (green magnesium iron silicate) and metallic iron. Unfortunately, before Dr. Evans had precisely charted the meteorite's position, he died...
...page with Hemingway's story about Italian battalions in Spain) that Ernest Hemingway was a contributor, not an editor. By last week Ken's direction had largely devolved on Messrs. Smart & Gingrich with the assistance of Messrs. Hemingway, Seldes, John Spivak (Europe Under the Terror), Raymond Gram Swing (Forerunner of American Fascism), Critic Burton Rascoe, Manuel Komroff, Sportswriter Herb Graffis...
...coffee contains about one-tenth of a gram of caffeine. In mild doses, the action of this drug is to step up the pulse rate, increase the flow of blood in the coronary arteries that serve the heart itself, stimulate the thinking areas of the brain, constrict the blood vessels. In a recent paper abstracted last week in Modern Medicine, Dr. Robert Louis Levy of Columbia University declared that in certain high-strung individuals under mental or emotional stress, coffee may cause heart pains...
Kline of the Merck & Co. laboratories. From rice polishings it was very expensive but the synthetic manufacture is cheap. Merck & Co. markets the vitamin in one-gram, one-tenth-gram and one-hundredth-gram tablets but does not advertise to the public and sells only to the medical profession. Last week Dr. Jolliffe suggested that liquor makers might put a trace of the vitamin in their products before distributing them, by dissolving a half-milli-gram or so per pint. The cost to the liquor people would not be more than ½? a bottle. Or drinkers might buy their...