Word: sugar
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Physiology involved depends on the acid-alkaline condition of the body. Exertion causes the oxidation (burning) of blood sugar in the muscles. Product of that combustion is lactic acid which ordinarily changes into carbon dioxide and is exhaled. During intense effort too much lactic acid is produced in a short time to be eliminated (as oxidized gas) through the lungs. This causes trouble unless the blood contains enough alkaline substances to neutralize the acid. Oranges, grapefruit and lemons alkalinize the blood in a natural way. So do certain mineral waters. But none, according to Berlin's Professor Dennig...
...about the same ratio - $36,500,000: $136,000,000 - and dining car and passenger revenues mean little to either. Running from New Orleans to Shreveport, La. and Hope, Ark. with an affiliate branching to Dallas, Tex. the L. & A. carries mostly quarry products, refined oils and sugar...
Once there was a boy. This was very long ago. The boy went to a very nice school where you called the principal "Father". He got a good education there, he met Hooker Beane, the son of the great international banker, and Jeremy Sloan, the heir to the great sugar-beet fortune, and he roomed with Weston, the brilliant young gentleman-rider...
Died. Count Francisco Matarazzo, 86, "Brazil's richest man," Italian-born Sao Paulo industrialist; after brief illness; in Rio de Janeiro. The Matarazzo United Industries produce rice, starch, rayon, cotton, liquor, fish oil, fish meal, lipstick, face powder, sugar, motion pictures, vegetable oils, linseed oil, iron and aluminum products, castor oil, coffee, flour...
...leather, Atlas Powder Co. showed profits of $1,430,000 in 1936 as against $1,161,000 the year before. Hercules Powder Co. also famed for its dynamite and blasting powders, reported a profit of $4,284,000, compared to $3,175,000 in 1935. From bananas, ships and sugar United Fruit Co. made $14,176,000 last year as against $10,359,000 the year before. The white-uniformed salesmen who cry their wares from U. S. roadsides helped Good Humor Corp. increase its net income from $291,000 to $404,000. The Fuller Brush Man was apparently turned...