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...silly to spend only a day or two in Paris. I have to report now and get my orders and I am ready to go to work." Donna Cora Caetani of Italy, one of Europe's best-dressed women, sporting a wool-like suit and sweater made of skim milk, brought 70 dresses synthesized from milk, wood, reeds, to be shown at the Fair's Italian Pavilion. Attending the dedication of the "Roadway of Tomorrow" at the Ford Motor Co. building were Henry Ford, 75, Son Edsel Bryant Ford, 45, and Grandson Henry Ford II, 22, a Yale...
...fifths of an ounce of salt, tor maintaining the water balance in body tissues; the same quantity of brewers' yeast, for vitamin B; one-twelfth of an ounce of cod-liver oil, for vitamin A; half a lemon twice weekly, for vitamin C. If two ounces of dried skim-milk powder are available, brewers' yeast can be omitted. Other corrections: growing children need more cod-liver oil and skim-milk powder than adults, but less salt. If lemons or oranges are not available, the committee suggests that scurvy can be avoided by steeping any nonpoisonous green leaves...
...superficiality proved to some degree by Chicago University, survey courses are practical for a plan of study which, because of the failure of the secondary schools, must teach the fundamental ideas of the world. It is even possible to design survey courses, so that they will do more than skim the surface...
...used in "some fields of life-science-for example, in genetics, for charting the occurrence of hereditary variations-and a great many biological processes have been reduced to chemical equations. But chemical equations are essentially descriptive. They assert that certain substances combine or dissociate to form other substances, but skim over the fundamental physical processes...
Years ago dairies used to dump their surplus casein, later discovered their dumping grounds had become fertile fields. In 1898, Casein Co. of America started making casein commercially. Manufacturing process is relatively simple: after skim milk, which has a 3% casein content, has soured, the curd (crude casein) is separated from the whey; the curd is then washed, dried and ground into the finished product. Since 1921 U. S. production of casein has risen from 8,000,000 to 40,000,000 Ib. annually. Biggest consumers are paper makers (who use 70% of the yearly output for coating book, magazine...