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Some patients showed great improvement after one treatment, others after two or three. Dr. Raab believed that he was on the threshold of an important discovery. At that point (1938) Hitler swallowed Austria, and Dr. Raab left immediately, "by preference." He came to the U. S., where he had once been a Rockefellow, settled at the University of Vermont...
...Oscar Bach began working with less expensive iron & steel alloys, he found to his surprise that his coloring process immensely improved corrosion resistance. Last week the "American Cellini's" researches led him to the threshold of National Defense. He announced a process for Bachiting cheap black plate iron (3? per lb.), which, he claims, makes the metal a substitute for tin plate. Tin is important in tin cans because it resists corrosion by food acids. Bachited iron, said Bach, had a corrosion resistance against "most corrosive agents" higher than that of tin plate...
...whom would look upon a hundred dollars a year as a substantial raise." Basis of reform is the Indian Reorganization Act, six years old. With its protection former hunting and war tribes are working out a supportable existence in cattle ranching; the Blackfeet are at-but not over-the threshold of self-support ; the Flatheads have defended and developed a power site of which they were to be robbed. Ninety-eight tribes and bands have organized local governments; 67 have incorporated for business purposes. But the Act and its administrators are under constant and increasing attack, may be destroyed...
Testing normal men and women in a hotbox, the Hardy crew found that the women did not begin to perspire until the temperature of their skins was two degrees higher than "the threshold of sweating" in the men. This holding back is due to a more flexible metabolism in women, which simply slows down their internal heat production in hot weather...
...Believed still alive, von Mücke - last accounted for in Nazi Germany - may be on the threshold of new war adventures...