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...basis of six years' experiments, Professor Henry Barnett McDonnell, University of Maryland, reported last week that low concentrations of ozone shorten the lives of guinea pigs. "When inhaled in higher concentrations," he said, "it is a violent irritant of the mucous membranes and reacts chemically with the mucus to form a thick froth which . . . stops the air supply to the lungs almost completely in a minute...
Cleveland newshawks got together three years ago to talk of organizing to protect their jobs, shorten hours, raise pay. Soon they heard that similar meetings were being held in Manhattan, Minneapolis and St. Paul. Result was American Newspaper Guild, founded in December 1933 with shaggy, drawling Scripps-Howard Columnist Heywood Campbell Broun as its president. Though some of the members at first did not like to proclaim it as such, the new Guild was a labor union from the start. Last week in Manhattan's Hotel Astor, the third annual Guild convention enthusiastically admitted this fact when instructed delegates...
Fifteen per cent of the men enrolled are over 30 pointing to the fact that the men already started in business who feel they need special training, but cannot see their way clear to two full years, make use of this chance to shorten the period of training...
...some of the glory Benito Mussolini seems to want, for the savage Ethiopians would not take Civilization lying down. On the other hand this form of League "mandate" to Italy would cut off Ethiopia's Emperor from all help by the Great Powers and should, so Geneva statesmen said, "shorten the war." This they felt would be something gained, adding that the League would also have "localized the conflict outside of Europe...
...lapse of time between a scientific discovery and its effect on everyday life is an old story which will never become wholly obsolete. To shorten that time-lag is the chief objective of an organization announced last week by a handful of high-minded Washington scientists, journalists and laymen. A Delaware-chartered corporation called Research Associates Inc., the group includes Frederick Gardner Cottrell of the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry & Soils; Chester G. Gilbert of Manhattan's Research Corp.; Physicist Frederick Sumner Brackett of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; President William McClellan of Potomac Electric Power Co.; Senior...