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Harbored. The idea came to him: Why wait to be bombed? Why not strike the first blow? He tried the idea in a speech last week in Omaha,* but nobody seemed to be listening. Two days later he added more powder to his charge in a speech at the Boston Navy Yard, and this time the shot was heard 'round the world...
...tooth decay. But since acid-producing bacteria are now blamed by most cavity detectives, an antibiotic to check the bacteria looked like a good bet. Last week, with the blessing of the Food & Drug Administration, the Andrew Jergens Co. offered druggists just such a prescription item: Dentocillin, a tooth powder containing penicillin...
Michigan. Competing stoutly against a bevy of capable housewives, Clifford Sterns, a young bachelor who drives a school bus for a living, won four blue ribbons at the Monroe County Fair: for his baking-powder biscuits, chocolate cake, spice cake and berry pie. His apple pie was only third. Detroit's Welfare Superintendent set about investigating 50 overweight women on the city's welfare rolls, who get an extra $3.30 every fortnight to buy nonfattening foods, discovered they had made no progress whatever in losing weight. "Maybe in this weather," he conjectured, "they can't resist...
...artillery batteries. "In action of a type seldom seen outside American Civil War prints, the artillerymen leveled their 105-mm. howitzers at enemy troops which at times penetrated within a hundred yards of the guns. With fuses set at zero, the artillerymen were using Charge 7-the maximum powder charge a 105 will take. Charge 7 is almost as rough on the guns as it was today on the Reds." Three out of the batteries' four guns were burned out, but the Reds failed to take them...
...Also known as the "Munroe effect," after Charles E. Munroe (1849-1938). Munroe, who also invented indurite, the first smokeless powder used by the U.S. Navy for large guns, noted the principle of the shaped charge in 1888, while chemist to the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport...