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...filtering to remove bacteria, pass it into chicken eggshells through a small hole made with a dentist's drill, inject it into the chick embryo's outer membrane. After allowing four or five days for the virus to propagate, they open the eggs, remove the membrane, grind it, mix it with broth, centrifuge it (a centrifuge is a high-speed whirling machine which acts like a cream separator). The vaccine is then ready...
...years white men left the Chippewas in peace to gather the rice and grind it into a rich, tangy meal. Then hunters spread the word that wild rice made good eating with game. Doctors and dietitians prescribed it for dyspeptics and people who were allergic to other cereals. Prices rose (to around $1 per lb., retail, for packaged wild rice). Greedy whites moved into the rice fields of north-central Minnesota, began to push out the Chippewas. Motorboats and rude, unaccustomed hands destroyed the wild plants, breaking nature's cycle of renewal...
Although soap operas do a fine business for their sponsors both in summer and winter, the grueling year-round grind of performing in them begins to tell on actresses when the days...
...Backed by manufacturers of tires, oil, gasoline, he began to build racing cars, drive them in endurance runs. In 1932 he "discovered" Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats. On its marble-hard salt, 4,300 ft. above sea level, he set his first endurance record with a 24-hour grind at an average speed of 112 m.p.h. When he upped his speed in 1933 and 1934, British auto racers sat up and took notice. To Bonneville with their 6-ton monsters went Racers George Eyston and John Cobb...
TIME does not believe its account was distorted. And to be plain as well as truthful, TIME does not favor U. S. entrance into the war. The only ax it has to grind is that U. S. citizens shall have the facts, welcome or unwelcome, to form intelligent opinions on what the U. S. must do to look after its own interests. Also to be plain, there are some circumstances in which the defense of the primary interests of the U.S. may require going to war. TIME believes it as dangerous to refuse to consider that fact as to engage...