Word: sulphureous
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Died. Alcide Mussolini, 64, of Predappio, Italy, foreman of sulphur mines, uncle of Premier Benito Mussolini; in Bologna. He was buried beside his brother Alessandro, father of the Premier...
...another Progress Medalist is Director Charles Edward Kenneth Mees of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratory; in 1913, for work done in his native England. Medalist Sheppard is the man who discovered that "if the cows didn't eat mustard plant, we could have no movies" -a trace of sulphur compound in gelatine being essential to the speed of silver halide reactions in photography.-ED. Harding's Portrait...
...Hydrolysis and the lesser members of the sulphur family", Professor Lamb, Mallinckrodt large lecture room...
...Oxides of Sulphur", Professor Lamb, large Mallinckrodt lecture hall...
Synthetic Insulin. John J. Abel and H. Jensen of Johns Hopkins reported that they had reduced insulin (hormone which controls the body's sugar) to crystals of relatively simple chemical content. In the crystals they found 3% sulphur, considerable nitrogen, five different ameno-acids. They are working to identify remaining insulin crystal constituents. When that is done they feel that they can make synthetic insulin much cheaper than the present animal product. Insulin is one of the four hormones so far isolated. Of the others: adrenalin, thyroxin and pituitrin...