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FREDRICK S. GRAM Director of Public Relations Group Health Association St. Paul, Minn...
...onions is a thioaldehyde, a close relative of the common antiseptic, formaldehyde. Chemist Kohman put raw onions through an ordinary household meat grinder, distilled the onion vapors, put them through a series of chemical tests. In a recent issue of Science, he reported finding about 1/20 of a gram of thioaldehyde in a pound of raw onions...
...Like all the four known artificial elements,† curium is unstable. Each millionth of a gram shoots out 70 billion alpha particles (helium nuclei) per minute, 3,000 times as many as the same amount of radium. This activity makes a solution of curium hydroxide glow strongly enough to take its own photograph. Its "half-life" (the period during which one half disintegrates) is only five months...
...whole wheat bread, she got two ancient, water-operated grist mills to grind the flour, stubbornly insisting that the gram had better flavor and nourishment when it was ground in that antiquated way. As she continued to expand, she added melba toast, pound cake, etc. to the Pepperidge line. But she was careful not to expand so fast that she could not finance it out of earnings. In all, she has had to borrow only $5,000 outside capital and has kept the company a family enterprise...
Paul E. DesMarais '49 was elected president of the Music Club Tuesday night, at the group's final gathering of the term. Also chosen to direct club activities next fall are Douglas Allanbrook '48 as vice-president, James R. Blake '48 as Secretary-treasurer, and Peter Gram Swing '44 and John T. Swing '50 as Program Committee members...