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...vaccination. > Dr. Ernest François Auguste Fourneau, master of chemical therapy, known for his local anesthetics, stovaine and stovarsol. Dr. Fourneau, a serious-looking man, when asked how he happened to name his discoveries, always says that he was inspired by the English translation of Fourneau, which is "stove." In 1935, after trying 1,161 sulfonamide compounds, Dr. Fourneau finally found the formula which conquered the streptococci of puerperal fever and meningitis...
...hundred years ago last week a persevering Yankee named Charles Goodyear brewed some crude rubber, sulfur and white lead on his kitchen stove, discovered vulcanization. That invention changed rubber from a scientist's plaything to one of mankind's most useful commodities. Today there are some 35,000 uses for rubber, 4,000,000 people are employed in the industry and its world-wide investment comes to $2,698,000,000. Greatest concentration of this great sum is found in Ohio's 122 rubber factories and last week in Akron, "rubber capital of the world," the industry...
...chooses a name, dons a white soutane. The Cardinals pay him homage. All the baldachins except that of the new Pontiff are folded back to the walls. To show the crowds outside that "a Pope has been made," the ballots, which previously have been burned in the conclave stove with damp straw (to send up black smoke), are this time burned alone, and a thin wisp of white signals from the chapel chimney...
...port of Aden lies on the edge of a huge, volcanic rock on the tilted coast of southwest Arabia about 100 miles from the mouth of the Red Sea. Romans called the neighboring territory Arabia Felix. Kipling, with a sharper eye for the facts, called Aden "a barrick-stove." It is one of the hottest, most forlorn spots in the British Empire, of which it became a part just a century ago. Its acquisition as Queen Victoria's first colony made the young virgin Queen very happy. She, the Romans and Aden's Governor, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Bernard...
...days last week baseball's major-league club owners sat in secret session in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, solemnly plotting the 1939 course of the U. S. national game. Meanwhile baseball's henchmen-managers, scouts, oldtimers, sportswriters, votaries-set up their "hot stove" in the Waldorf's elegant lobby, toasted the crumbs that fell from the sovereigns' table...