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...Department, but selenium poisoning. Selenium is the light-sensitive substance used in photoelectric cells, and is closely related chemically to sulphur. From selenium compounds discovered in the soil of the affected districts, wheat and other plants absorb the poisonous element. The Department's investigators found that if sulphur-harmless alike to plant and consumer-were added to the soil, the plants would absorb that instead of the selenium. Last week Dr. Albert Fred Woods, director of the Department's scientific work, said he was encouraged by the progress already made on the sulphur cure. The U. S. Public...
...Bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccine for tuberculosis immunity; of peritonitis; in Paris. Helped by Veterinary Surgeon Charles Guérin, he produced a sluggish strain of tuberculosis bacilli from cattle, made a vaccine which was given to hundreds of thousands of French babes with apparent success. The harmlessness of BCG was violently challenged when 76 vaccinated German infants died of tuberculosis (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931). Although the courts found that negligence of hospital attaches was responsible and the League of Nations pronounced BCG harmless, it has not ceased to be the subject of acrid dispute...
...think of nothing more harmless and yet inspiring than a parade which shows their belief of the President's policy which no one can say is not aimed at the most sincere...
When Captain John Ayers released the movie rights of his book to the Warner Bros. Inc., he could have had very little notion of the Hollywood system. It is hard to believe that he is satisfied. The movie, true enough, is harmless and occasionally entertaining. But the possibilities of such a work proved a little too much for those who sit in back rooms and pound out superlatives. "The Police are Liars," "The Police are Fakers," they assure us. Snappy mottos, these, emblazoned in three foot red capitals, snappy mottos to garner quarters and to ornament...
...harmony with a well-oiled cinematic formula, the dramatic value of this production is in inverse proportion to the fury of its advertising campaign. As the "Bureau of Missing Persons" appears on the screen, it is a harmless tale centered around the adventures of a young detective in the particular department under inspection. His inexperience is considered sufficient justification for a lengthy sermon on the value of the Bureau; his presence imparts some continuity to the series of otherwise unconnected incidents; his youth is Hollywood's reason for dragging in the love interest...