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...room with the safety rules and precautions of a radioisotope laboratory, 2 cc. of fluid containing live polio virus are added as a seed stock to each quart of tissue fluid. Back to the rocker go the bottles. The virus multiplies a thousandfold in the kidney cells, and after about four days the potentially deadly crop is ready for harvest. It is chilled in 2½gal. bottles for trucking from Toronto to Eli Lilly & Co. and to Parke, Davis...
Rust Cover. A paint which will prevent further rusting when spread over a rusted surface was put on the market by Sealube Co., Wakefield, Mass. Price: $5.45 a quart, enough to cover...
...Swedes describe their welfare state-even drinking is government-controlled. Before a citizen may buy a bottle of liquor, he must first be investigated by the Royal Control Board. He may then get a liquor passbook entitling him, according to age and income, to from one to three quarts of hard liquor monthly. If he proves boisterous on his allotment, the vigilant board may reduce his quota, or even lift his book. An unmarried female is usually allowed only one quart of liquor every three months, and loses this ration when she marries...
...both hardwood and linoleums, the Safety Floor Wax contains tiny, gripping particles of Du Font's Ludox (colloidal silica) which snub the forward motion of a shoe hitting the shiny floor, bring it to a safe and sure-footed stop.. Price: $1.29 a quart...
...characters in an old morality play. The book is full of generalizations that might be fun as caricatures but are disturbing if taken seriously. Examples: the U.S. hates abstract thought; bullfighting is popular in U.S. literature because Americans are obsessed with death; most old-line tycoons drank half a quart of whisky every day. And in Newport, "in every house where I was invited [there was] a white-coated barman whom everybody called 'Fido...