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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike the German product, Lyterlife is non-liquid in the tube and remains non-liquid even after being fed into the lighter which is accomplished via the "force-feed" system. This forced feeding thoroughly impregnates the cotton in the fuel chamber of the lighter, minimizes evaporation, and yet permits Lyterlife to feed into the wick as readily as a liquid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 22, 1930 | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

Thus American Woolen is ready for a new era. The old management has worked on the financial structure until it is now in a highly liquid position with over $19,000,000 in cash, will afford no worry to the new management which will specialize in intensive selling, ramming the Ram's Head forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ram's Head Changes | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...last week attentively read press despatches announcing that the German dye trust had developed a combustible called bonalin for lighters. Bonalin, said the news, would not smoke, smell or explode. The new fuel comes in a tube, like toothpaste. When squeezed into the lighter it becomes a clear combustible liquid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cheap Light | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...years of quiet research in his laboratory at Munich, he announced that he had succeeded in synthesizing hematin, the red iron core which carries oxygen into the blood (TIME, Jan. 7, 1929). He used pyrrol, a constituent of the common cure-all known as bone oil, subjected the colorless liquid to a complicated chemical treatment to obtain his results. The synthetic product he called hematine. Or ganic chemists are now experimenting with the substance, using it upon animals to de termine how doctors may employ it to cure human disease. Sir Chandrasekhara Ven kata Raman discovered in 1928 that when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blood & Light | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...warning miners of danger. The alarm signal is a penetrating odor. Metal mines (unlike coal mines, which use electrically operated fans) are ventilated by compressed air which travels into the farthest corners at the rate of about 1,000 ft. per sec. Engineers have found that a little odorous liquid injected at the source of the air supply will cause the odor to be carried throughout the largest mine in a few minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mine Stench | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

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