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Other regions that have had lesser "polio" epidemics this year: Michigan, home of Dr. Max Peet of the University of Michigan, who has advocated as a polio-preventive spraying the noses of children with a solution of zinc sulphate (TIME, July 5); Buffalo, which has posted guards along the 35-mile Niagara frontier on the chance that the epidemic was imported from, Ontario; Toronto and Kingston, Canada, which have postponed opening of school and advised parents to keep their children away from the Canadian National Exhibition to open at Toronto next week...
...general, however, this promises to be a light year for infantile paralysis. How much this may be due to the preventive effect of the Peet-Schultz nasal spray is any epidemiologist's guess. The solution for spraying, which was developed by Dr. Edwin William Schultz and Chemist Louis Philipp Gebhardt of Stanford University, consists of 1% zinc sulphate, 0.5% pure common salt, 1 % pontocaine hydrochloride (a local anesthetic) in distilled water. But to use this effectively is no easy trick. The careful spraying procedure advised by Dr. Peet...
Prophylactic teams, each composed of a specially trained doctor, a nurse and a clerk, this summer started to experiment on a national scale with the Peet-Schultz prophylactic under the general direction of Dr. Charles Armstrong of the U. S. Public Health service who last year found that the spraying of Alabama children's noses with alum did some good in preventing infantile paralysis. Half-a-dozen teams operated in Omaha last week. These teams soon found that metal tipped atomizers are apt to Injure the nostrils of young children, who jerk and sneeze when treated. Children...
Every week since January 1936 Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. has been advertising Palmolive shaving creams with a Wednesday night coast-to-coast radio melodrama called "Gang-busters." Produced by smart young Benton & Bowles advertising agency, which claims 20,000,000 listeners for the program, "Gangbusters" dramatizes actual criminal careers. The killing of Dillinger Gangster Homer Van Meter was the subject of one hair-raising episode, but "Gangbusters" has not confined itself to dead lawbreakers. The dramatization of the capture of Massachusetts' murdering Millen Brothers was broadcast prior to their electrocution and many a live but lesser robber, forger...
...Standard Brands, Inc. 1,141 1,263 Ford Motor Co. 1,106 680 Chrysler Corp. 1,635 430 R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co 1,585 439 Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. 1,034 651 General Foods Corp. 760 1,075 Lever Bros. 662 1,133 Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. 1,107 947 American Tobacco Co. 919 636 Bristol-Myers...