Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washtubs & Sun Lamps. The three-ton question allowed no time for designing or building machinery. Dr. Harden used his laboratory as a factory and tried every short cut he could think of. First step was pouring a solution of uranium salt and other chemicals into a battery of wooden washtubs on the roof. There the photochemical action of the ultraviolet rays in sunlight (on cloudy days, sun lamps) converted the transparent liquid into green, powdery potassium uranium fluoride. The second step: melting this secondary uranium salt in graphite cups for electrolytic separation of the pure metal. The electrodes were raised...
When a Negro boy in Charleston, S.C. was bitten, the doctors began running through the usual drugs. But 45 minutes after the injection of calcium gluconate, the boy still cried out with pain. After another shot he seemed to get worse. A slow injection of salt and sugar was no help; pentobarbital sodium, codeine and Aspirin left him still twitching on the bed. Pentobarbital sodium was tried again, to no effect...
Such admonishments are gravely considered here at TIME, for they supply a pertinent answer to a question always in the mind of any editor worth his salt: "How'm I doing?" They are welcomed, read and studied. The editors sometimes schedule new stories on the strength of them. And all are answered...
George had it all planned. On the itinerary were New York, Hollywood and Bermuda. Top priority on their shopping list: some salt & pepper shakers to add to the collection of 800 sets they already...
...Major station allocations: seven each to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles; six to San Francisco; five each to Boston, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Memphis, New Orleans, Portland, Ore., St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Spokane, Schenectady; four each to 42 other cities...