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Crocker has found that flavor and smell are more closely related than most people heretofore realized: if one holds his nose, for example, an apple tastes much like an onion...
...Apple or Onion? Crocker's interest in analytical smelling began when he worked with odorous gases in the Chemical Warfare Service in World War I. He has since applied his uncanny skill to many an industrial smelling problem, from perfumes to inks. Once a manufacturer of metal heating utensils showed Crocker a sample, asked why it smelled bad. Crocker sniffed, then astonished the manufacturer by describing accurately all six stages in the finishing of the article (washing with kerosene, buffing with a cotton polisher...
Selling vacuum cleaners, reading the want ads, living for five days on onion sandwiches, watching crises come so fast they did not know they were crises, the Piersons proved in their own careers that the enrolling avalanche of ill-fate was only part of the story. When they were almost starving, the boys, coming out of steel mills and preparatory schools, won scholarships at Yale...
...Toronto newsmen as "God") to succeed him. Conant thought until last week that he would be the new Premier. When Liberals, including Hepburn, ignored him at the Party convention and deserted him, Conant went off to a hospital to rest. Mitch himself stayed in political retirement on his onion farm...
...onion crop (June 8-15) was 50% above average. Heavy crops of beets and snap beans were melted down, July...