Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beriberi is an unfamiliar disease in the western world and Vitamin B 1 is so widely dispersed among staple articles of diet that B 1 deficiency is not especially common. In the lay mind it has been overshadowed lately by the "anti-infective" Vitamin A (fish oil, spinach, carrots, milk, butter, etc.), the anti-scurvy Vitamin C (orange juice, lettuce, celery, etc.) and the antirachitic Vitamin D (fish oil, egg yolks, irradiated foods, etc.). These are of acknowledged importance to human health. But the fact is that doctors are using "the forgotten vitamin," B 1 , in clinical treatment of sick...
...night last week and, 70 miles offshore, encountered three cruisers, four destroyers, almost the entire battle fleet of Rightist Spain. In a running two-hour battle the Leftist destroyers buried a torpedo in the 10,000-ton Baleares, flagship of the Franco fleet, which burst into flames as the oil tanks caught fire. The Leftists then put back to Cartagena, the Rightists high-tailed out to sea and two British antipiracy ships were left to pick up some 400 survivors from the Baleares' 750-man crew. Same day Leftist warplanes, determined to scuttle Franco's flagship, bombed...
Sulphonated castor oil, the sodium alkyl sulphates, and the sodium salts of sulphonated alkyl naphthalenes are "wetting agents." As explained last week in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Review, wetting agents reduce the surface tension of water (which makes it contract into drops), thus enable it to penetrate and soak water-resistant substances. Wetting agents are now used in laundries, in dyeing and tanning, in medicine (increasing the efficacy of antiseptic solutions), in tooth paste, in metalworking...
...house can be built of sheet metal the housing problem is easily solved with the assistance of the Harvard Sheet Metal and Roofing Company, Wall Paper and Paint Company, Oil Burner Company, Light and Power Company, Plumbing Company, Electric and Machine Company and American and Oriental Rug Company. Furniture could be obtained through either the Harvard Specialty Manufacturing Corporation or the Harvard Toy Shop...
This does not mean that Mr. Banfield has lost faith in his Iron Fireman. Sales of automatic stokers are on the rise. In 1933 one automatic stoker was sold for every six oil burners; last year the proportion was one to 2.2. But he has cogent reasons for surprising his dealers: 1) About a third of Iron Fireman dealers sell oil burners as well as stokers, and he would like them to have a complete line of Iron Fireman equipment; 2) The rest of his dealers want a crack at the new construction market, for most contractors still put oil...