Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Genetics. President Clarence Cook Little of the University of Michigan advised biological investigators to turn more and more from their habitual and comparatively easy study of insects to the study of mammals. There are, said he, at least five great divisions of genetic problems which are capable of successful investigation in laboratory mammals, viz., the genetic bases for size & growth, fertility & sterility, susceptibility or resistance to disease, lethal action of genes during development, and psychological differences. Studying those fields, investigators might learn the possibility of controlling the ratio between the sexes, of developing resistance to infectious diseases and elimination...
Race Betterment. From Nashville, President Clarence Cook Little of the University of Michigan and many another took train for Battle Creek, Mich., where, as guests of bustling Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, they attended the Third Race Betterment Conference. Dr. Little presided over the informal discourses of more than 50 men and women who sought less to present new facts in genetics or any other science than to show how the special sciences might apply to the problems of race improvement...
Immunity. Dr. Malcolm Herman Soule of the University of Michigan presented a theory that disease germs occur in two forms-one virulent, the other relatively harmless. The presence of the virulent types in the blood incites some agent (its nature yet unknown) to dissociate the virulence, leaving the germs in their mild form. This gentle type the body cells & fluids can easily destroy. It is the presence of that dissociating power, Dr. Soule believes, that renders people immune to disease, rather than any specific germicidal activity of the body fluids...
Married. Miss Madeleine Couzens, eldest daughter of Senator from Michigan James Couzens; to one William Romer Yaw of Detroit; at Pontiac, Mich...
...retail furniture stores. A $30,000,000 consolidation, this was the greatest in the history of furniture and allied industries. Milwaukee Dairies. To make ice cream, cheese, butter and other milk products on a vast scale and to sell them in Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and the northern peninsula of Michigan-the Waukesha Milk Co., the Blommer Ice Cream Co., and the Bendfelt Ice Cream Co., all of Milwaukee, last week consolidated their interests as the Wisconsin Creameries...