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...worker bee has a life span of only three months. But a queen bee lives for five-years-20 times as long. Biochemist Thomas S. Gardner of Nutley, NJ. thought that if he could find out how the queen does it, he might have a valuable clue to the secret of a long life...
Meanwhile, another radioactivity case came to a tragic but clear-cut end. Dorothy L. Burns, 30, last fall sued Westinghouse for $200,000, claiming that she had contracted radiation sickness in a war-job at Westinghouse's Bloomfield, NJ. plant. Her illness, marked by fibrous degeneration of both lungs and a slow wasting away, puzzled doctors. Last week Miss Burns died. Reported Medical Examiner Harrison S. Martland (who in the '20s discovered radium sickness among a group of women painting luminous watch dials): Miss Burns did not die of radiation sickness. Her illness was beryllium poisoning, caused...
MORGAN MONROE Publisher Chatham Courier Chatham, NJ...
Bible Belting. When Quincy Beltram of the International Edge Tool Co. of Newark, NJ. was asked by the state mediation board why he had fired eleven workers who had joined a C.I.O. union, he said he was following the biblical exhortation: "Cast out the scorner and strife shall cease." On his return to the plant, Beltram, who presides at daily Bible classes for his workers, found that the lessons had sunk in. Pickets greeted him with a sign on which they too quoted freely from the Bible: "Masters, give unto your workers that which is just and equal." After another...
...when he cast a speculative eye at it, the gone-to-weed field did not look much better to him. But Wehran thought it had possibilities. He scraped up the $100,000 down payment and bought the field for $500,000. Then he persuaded Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) to finance the remainder on a ten-year mortgage and lend him $500,000 more to 1) build three 3,000-ft. runways and 2) buy another 200 acres to add to his 350. In return, Wehran agreed to sell only Standard's gasoline...