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...stretch near Ithaca, N. Y. came through a pounding by nine inches of rain without visible effect. Developed by Cloyd Delson Looker, research director of International Salt Co., and Heinrich Ries, Cornell University geologist, the treatment makes clay hard like concrete, retards evaporation so that the surface remains moist and firm, provides an almost nonskid track. The cost per mile ($1,200) is about a third that of asphalt, one-twentieth that of concrete...
...first standard high-priced fountain pen launched on what had always been a low-priced market. Next Walter Sheaffer streamlined his pens. Then in quick succession he introduced the Sheaffer desk set with universal socket (which seals the tip of the pen and keeps it moist), the Feathertouch nib, the special Sheaffer pencil which "propels, repels and expels the lead," the Sheaffer Vacuum-Fil pen. By 1929 the company's gross sales had climbed to $8,000,000 and its profits, averaging more than $1,000,000, were ahead of those of one of its two rivals, Parker...
...physiological mechanism which produces exophthalmic goitre remains a medical puzzle. In typical cases the thyroid is enlarged and the eyeballs protrude from their sockets. But neither pop eyes nor big neck are essential symptoms of exophthalmic goitre. A rapid pulse, moist skin and loss of weight, despite a good appetite, suggest the disease. The patient is restless and irritable, laughs and cries easily, becomes angry and excited at the least provocation, is comparatively insensitive to cold. An unfailing test for exophthalmic goitre is the basal metabolism rate, measured by a simple breathing machine. If after a long rest...
...estimated to yield 435,499,000 bu.- 69% of normal. That was slightly more than last year's yield, but far below the 618,000,000-bu. average of the last five years. East of the Mississippi, and particularly in the Ohio Valley where the soil was moist, crops were in good condition. But west of the river, in the ten States chiefly affected by drought and dust, more than 40% of the winter wheat seeded last autumn was expected to fail. Hardest hit was Kansas where rainfall in March was only 56% of normal and the crop...
...Hertz lost his Symphony job in 1930 when fashionable gentiles had their own ideas about the San Francisco orchestra. But Hertz liked the cool, moist San Francisco climate, liked his San Francisco home overlooking the Pacific and in San Francisco he remained. San Franciscans generally came to realize that he was as fine a German conductor as they had ever known...