Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...habituated to the enormous weight of a pen as to hamper him in adjusting with nice precision scales which are sensitive to minute infinitesimals of a miligram. Naturally Technician Irénée du Pont is nonchalant though extremely circumspect in the presence of high explosives-a major product of the du Pont industries. His coolness in the presence of trinitrotoluene famed as "T. N. T.," does not however carry over into social intercourse. Aboard the Lutzow, last week, he displayed affability in small talk, learning where chemicals were concerned, and kindling interest at any chance mention of subjects...
...three years Drs. Felton and Rosenow at Harvard and Drs. Park and Banzhaf at the New York City Board of Health had worked to get the horse serum out of the final product. Finally they were successful. They developed a method of growing the antibodies in the horse, making the serum, then refining it until all the horse serum was removed, leaving only the helpful antibodies. The refined product is ten times as effective and has no dangerous after effects. There is only one place in Canada or the United States where this serum is prepared: the Board of Health...
...manager of the Jennings, La., Chamber of Commerce: "Rice, which is the principal food of more than one-third of the world's population, does not occupy its rightful place on the menu of the American family simply because rice-growers and millers have not properly advertised their product. Its nutritive value is great compared to that of other common foods." Mr. Shoaf was addressing a conference of rice-growers and millers of the three principal rice-growing states (Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana), meeting last week in New Orleans. They talked about the need for advertising in order...
...Bacteriophage-a living by-product of the development of bacteria which has the power of destroying the bacteria when they reach a certain concentration (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926). The bacteriophage of bacillary dysentery has been employed by the Oswaldo-Cruz Institute in Brazil to eradicate bacillary dysentery in that country...
Fortunes have been lost in advertising-but not when the product is as sound and as timely as Mr. Mazur's book...