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Volumetric analysis takes up the second half-year, involving the standardization of reagent solutions and titrating of unknowns. The average man will find that rarely will he require less than four afternoons a week, or about 15 hours a week, and this is a conservative estimate. The course is not hard, but requires rather close attention to details...
...Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee-who, to spare taxes and borrow money from bankers, is trying to cut city operating costs-to reduce his department budget by 20%. Before Dr. Norris' eyes was the barren poverty of his morgue office-a small room, cheap furniture, a microscope, reagent bottles. The floor is bare. But in an adjacent laboratory is a dingy blue rug, once blood-stained evidence in a murder case...
...important part of the war machine. MI-8, organized through Yardley's initiative, had its hands full in keeping pace with German chemists, who gave their spies silk scarves, or even silk-covered tuxedo-buttons, impregnated with secret ink chemicals which could be devolped with only one specific reagent. It was the Secret Ink Bureau which brought about the capture of Madame de Victoria, most dangerous of the German spies, who introduced high explosives in marble figures for altar decoration, and was in charge of blowing up war industry plants, docks, etc. in the United States...
Idaho. The election of a Democratic Governor in the domain of Senator William Edgar Borah, independent Republican, was in the nature of a reaction under laboratory conditions ? unadorned evidence of the country's trend. The reagent's name: Ben Ross...
Rapid Blood Tests. The careful Wassermann blood test for syphilis requires five reagents and almost 24 hours' reacting time, an inconvenience to the diagnostician and a nerve-racking wait for the patient. Dr. R. le Kahn of the Michigan State Health Department demonstrated a new test which requires only one reagent and 15 minutes to show definitely the blood condition. His department and the U. S. Navy have adopted his quick method, it was said...