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Sometimes foods become poisoned by contact with certain metals. Leaving food in a tin can is perfectly safe, provided it is kept in the icebox. But acid foods should not be prepared in galvanized iron utensils. Although arsenic sprays are not strong enough to cause immediate poisoning, Dr. Chandler suggests soaking all fruits and vegetables which are eaten without peeling in a crock of 1% hydrochloric acid for a few minutes. This dunking should be followed by a thorough washing...
...musical director, a job that involves nothing more than changing records as he goes along. He is also the Slo-Gro Corp. Softspoken, Virginia-born, 33-year-old Joker Moran is famous for having hunted for a needle in a haystack (see cut), sold an icebox to an Eskimo, reenacted the battle of Bunker Hill with twelve strabismic stooges to prove that Colonel Prescott was silly when he issued the command: "Don't fire until you see the white of their eyes...
Allen Trevaskis '42 and Winny White '42 of Kirkland House were confidently at work yesterday fixing a newly acquired refrigerator which had gone suddenly on the blink, when the smell of sulfur began to fill the room. Before a leak of poisonous sulfur dioxide from the icebox was suspected, the two were half asphixiated...
Professor Richard Osborn Cummings of Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis. once wrote a Harvard thesis on refrigeration. After that he went inside the icebox. Last week Professor Cummings published The American and His Food (University of Chicago Press; $2.50), an important social study of diet and health since 1789. In effect the book is a history of the struggle of meat and potatoes v. vitamins...
...influence of fashionable restaurants in the big cities, the greater distribution of unseasonable vegetables by railroads, the later dietetic crusades of ladies' magazines, development of the icebox to keep fresh foods finally won the battle for greens...