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Mysterious mercury, the only metal liquid at ordinary temperatures, was the basis for the alchemical transmutation of the elements. With retorts, alembics, beakers, pots, furnaces and incantations. Greek. Latin and Arabic experimenters sought first to purge quicksilver of Aristotle's four pristine elements. Mercury cleansed of earth, fire, air and water might then be changed to precious gold and silver. The rush for mercury in Arkansas last week was paralleled by a rush into Canada's Great Bear Lake region for radium, the modern transmuter's lodestone...
...great concentration; the fourth, sternutators or sneezers, which are effective by causing respiratory irritation, nausea and general depression. Diphenyelchlorasine is the most frequently used. The fifth class are vesicants such as mustard gas, which accomplish their work by inflaming and blistering the skin. Mustard gas which is a liquid is not balked by gas masks since it remains on the ground for two weeks causing injury to clothing and skin coming in contact with it. Gases in concentration from one part in 2,000 to one part in 5,000,000 can incapacitate men in five minutes depending upon...
Professor Percy W. Bridgman, whose laboratory has been moved to the new Research Building, occupies in various respects a unique position. He is acknowledged to be the leading authority in the world on the laboratory applications of high pressure and the behavior of solid and liquid materials under such pressure. He has attained the highest pressures on record in laboratory experimentation. An extremely prolific experimental investigator, he is at the same time a profound writer on the philosophical aspects of physics...
...minor point, on credits advanced to agricultural agencies. No other kind of security is eligible for the Reserve's rediscount privilege.? Not one nickel will the Reserve lend on the best industrial bonds, on prime stocks or on A-1 real estate mortgages. In its effort to keep liquid to meet depositors' demands, a bank which has exhausted all its assets eligible for Reserve borrowing must dump its other securities on the market to raise more cash. This dumping deflates values all the more, scares the public, increases the popular demand for ready cash. Bank after bank has failed...
...versity (New Orleans), sought his brother, Dominick. president of Loyola's freshman class, and their father. College officials were amazed to learn that the Genard family was accused of being affiliated with a liquor syndicate operating along the Louisiana coast. ¶ After purchasing three quarts of anti-freeze liquid at a gas filling station in Springfield, Mass, last week, a number of laborers went to the shores of a nearby pond, mixed the liquid with six quarts of water and sat down to an all-day carousal. Eight quarts of the concoction were consumed, one hidden. Seven...