Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Africa sweat out large quantities of vitamin C (found in oranges and lemons), frequently develop muscle weakness, even though they eat plenty of fresh fruits & vegetables. With this clue in mind, Du Pont doctors gave their workers two vitamin C tablets (ascorbic acid) a day, along with common salt tablets, to replenish the salt lost in perspiration. Result: cases of heat exhaustion, formerly four or five a day, disappeared, even when the temperature soared to over 100 degrees. The pills, said Dr. Foulger, "should prove useful in steel mills, foundries, and shipyards, in the engine rooms of ships...
...plane could drop gliders at Cleveland, St. Louis and Omaha, and still arrive in Los Angeles with gliders in tow, picked up at Amarillo and Salt Lake City. Troop carriers could be dropped off behind the front lines with full equipment, including tanks, could be picked up and reloaded at home base without the tow plane's ever touching ground...
...Bechtel Prize in Philosophy of $100, awarded to a student in philosophy for the best essay on an approved subject, was won by Rulon S. Wells III, of Salt Lake City, Utah, a third-year graduate student, for an essay on the subject "Linguistic Particularism...
...Facing aircraft cylinder heads and other exposed steel parts with aluminum to prevent corrosion by weather, salt sea spray and engine heat (as in exhaust manifolds...
...They will receive their reserve commissions after camp training this summer. Receiving certificates were Arnold M. Anderson, of Duluth, Minn.; William A. Ellison, Jr., of Knoxville, Tenn.; John T. Fey, of Cumberland, Md., Thomas J. Glenn, of Spartanburg, S. C.; Murray Harris, of Patterson, N. J.; Robert Polidor, of Salt Lake City, Ut.; Jack B. Quinn, of Chicago, Ill.; Paul W. Seiler, Jr., of Farmington, Mich.; and Robert M. Wattron, of Berkley, Calif...