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...Journal of the A.M.A. Dr. Hans Selye and coworkers of Montreal have found that rats get the disease if they get an overdose of desoxy-corticosterone acetate, a synthetic adrenal hormone. Dr. Selye concludes that possibly an oversupply of cortin (hormone secreted by the adrenal gland's outer husk) may be to blame for human arthritis. The adrenal glands, he says, may be stimulated by glandular imbalance (e.g., women at the menopause are very likely to get arthritis), exposure to cold, emotional shock, infections...
...sponsor is a Houston rice broker named Gordon L. Harwell. A born pot-watcher, Harwell used to sit up late nights with a pressure cooker and a potful of paddy (rice in the husk) trying to cook up an improvement on conventional milling methods. In orthodox rice milling, machines first remove the husk (containing vitamin Bi), then the germ and several coats of bran (rich in fat, minerals and vitamin B complex), finally give forth a polished white kernel which has lost most of the vitamins and minerals in the original rough grain. (The husks are burned; the bran...
...That Which," "Ah God" are all painted by cheerful little grey-haired Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, who works happily in the husk of an abandoned Methodist Church in Warrenville, Ill., an hour's drive outside Chicago. All three pictures have a microscopic detail that is more real than real life, a funereal rose and lavender cast, all are of subjects which look worn and battered by eternity...
Ordinary farmers are pleased if they husk 100 bushels of corn in a ten-hour day. That Carl Carlson husked only 21 bushels in his 80 minutes last week was due to poor conditions rather than to technical inferiority to his famed younger brother Elmer. Closest thing in the U. S. to an efficient cornhusking machine are Carl, Elmer and two other Carlson brothers, who will be favorites in future cornhusking championships. Hauled onto a platform last week to get his $100 prize money, Carl Carlson was so excited that he mistook the loudspeaker microphone for a radio outlet. Said...
...normal: 2,500,000,000), smallest since 1881. Buyers scouring the country for corn were finding that farmers were not selling, needed far more feed than they had grown. Husking bees had been postponed for want of ears to husk. And in the Chicago grain pit, traders suddenly realized that outstanding sales of corn for September delivery were double the supply in terminal grain elevators. Suddenly corn bounced up 3⅞? per bu., nearly the full 4? limit allowed by the Chicago Board of Trade...