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...sequence produce the kind of comic suspense on which early Harold Lloyd pictures were constructed. The mechanic in charge of a steam crane gets drunk. The Russian foreman orders him out of the cab and climbs in himself. With very little knowledge of how the contraption will react, he begins to pull its levers, manages, by the skin of his teeth, to avoid dropping several tons of cement on his underlings. Men and Jobs is not. essentially, entertainment, but it is a striking and intelligent advertisement for the Five-Year Plan. Good shot: the Russian foreman making a speech...
...research laboratories (TIME, Nov. 14). As such Director Coolidge is Laureate Langmuir's boss. Precisely, Dr. Langmuir received his award for "pioneer work in surface chemistry." This refers to his useful concept of the arrangement and orientation of molecules at the surface of objects-how, for example, gases react at the surface of a hot tungsten wire. This led him directly to the invention of the gas-filled incandecent lamp which saves U. S. users of electricity, according to estimates. $1.000,000 a night. The same concept led to his creating almost complete vacuums in thermionic tubes...
Oysters make both Oriental and Mikimoto pearls. When Mother Nature annoys an oyster by permitting a tiny bit of some irritating substance to get under its shell, the oyster reacts by covering this substance with layer on layer of pearly nacre, and the result is called an Oriental pearl. When Mr. Mikimoto annoys the oysters in his 41,000 acres of oyster beds by having a minute substance delicately inserted in the body of each oyster, the oysters react by producing about $1,000,000 worth of Mikimoto pearls a year. In gratitude Mr. Mikimoto has erected a monument...
...several theories of allergy stand out as useful - he protein theory and the reagin theory. Two points are certain about hayfever and the other allergies: 1) certain substances are mildly poisonous to certain people; 2) people react to their personal poisons in specific ways. The irritants may be plant pollens (ragweed, timothy, oak), foods (wheat, milk, eggs, fish), ani maldanders, feathers, dusts. The victim may show his symptoms in his nose and eyes (this is hayfever per se), his skin (hives), brain (migraine), intestines (colitis). Two theories concerning the physiology of allergy have many followers among the specialists. One theory...
...pugnacious throng massed outside his office the President roared: "If the nation does not react to the fact of outrage it does not deserve to be a nation! [Cheers]. But my government knows how to defend the honor and dignity of the Fatherland! Viva Bolivia...