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...Spray 'Em, Admiral...
Benzedrine is a synthetic colorless liquid, chemically related to adrenalin. Smith, Kline & French Laboratories of Philadelphia have a patent on the drug until 1950. Benzedrine is ordinarily used as a nasal spray or inhalant to reduce congestion due to head colds, sinusitis, rhinitis, hay fever, asthma. Larger doses of the drug cause restlessness, sleeplessness...
When Alabama's poliomyelitis ("polio") epidemic intensified, Governor Bibb Graves ordered all inmates in State institutions to be given an immunizing nasal spray (picric acid + sodium alum), made it possible for State employes to have the same treatment for 10?. Taking advantage of his own proposition, Governor Graves called Dr. H. G. Camp, Chief State Prison Physician, into his office, had his own nostrils well flushed...
...last week a black cloud rolled in from Lake Erie toward Conneaut, Ohio, dropped from its belly a thin, whirling column which touched the dark water, churned up a fountain of spray. This towering waterspout, more than 3,000 ft. high, moved in over the fringe of the town, where it began to behave like a tornado. It smashed windows in a score of houses, ripped off a porch, reduced a chicken coop to matchwood, hurled a bevy of screeching fowl high into the air. Prancing into the Nickel Plate Road yards, the funnel sucked up some heavy cans...
...amplifier assembly will serve Roosevelt Raceway, a pretzel-shaped automobile track on the site of Roosevelt Airport No. 1. From the glass-enclosed studio on the grandstand top announcements will spray over an area half a mile square, can be stepped up, if necessary, to carry a mile. Thus will be eliminated the jumbling ordinarily caused by announcements issuing simultaneously from loudspeakers at different points on a field. Total power consumption is 20,000 watts, enough to lift a ton 7 feet every second...