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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aeronautics. "I experimented twelve years with my motor car before I was convinced that it represented a lasting and stable product for the public. I have now only started to experiment with the airplane. And let me tell you that the commercial airplane is as yet a considerable distance of being a success...
...peculiar thing about "the specific factor" is that it is apparently the product of the action of the virus growing in a tumor-and it is different for every animal and even for different tissues of the body. So a cancer of any animal, for example, cannot be given to man from an injection of the animal's tumor containing 1) virus and 2 "specific factor" because the "specific factor" is inappropriate. But virus from an animal tumor, and a "specific factor" from a human tumor, will give man tumor...
...John J. Abel, of Johns Hopkins University, published last week an article, Researches on Insulin in a technical journal. He told of purifying and concentrating insulin so that it is several times as effective as the common product, held out hope of obtaining perfectly pure insulin, of learning its chemical constituents (he is inclined to believe it is a sulphur compound) with the possibility of eventually making it synthetically and also ot discovering a contributing cause of diabetes mellitus in the absence of certain sulphur compounds from the diet...
...statement that the amount of lace imported from Ireland during the last few years was so small as to be negligible is not accurate, because most of the Irish lace went to England and was shipped from there as an English product. In England, the trademark laws are so strict that no one dares to misbrand any article, and so we felt safe enough so far as the English trade was concerned...
...wish that straight news-legitimate news-were the only product which proceeds from Washington, but I know that it is not, just as you know it. The Capital is the great germinator of gossip and of scandalous whisperings regarding the great and the near great...