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Normally present in veins is a white chemical called indigo, which unites with the oxygen in fresh blood and turns blue.* Usually indigo flows with the blood stream to various organs, surrenders its oxygen and turns white again. But when fresh blood reaches tissues bloated with cyanogen, the indigo gets stalled and cannot give up its oxygen. Between the cyanogen and the indigo blue cells are unable to receive any nourishment, and thus, Drs. Davis and Schmitz suggested, the process of tumor development begins. How this vicious circle could be broken they did not venture...
Daughters Courageous (Warner Bros.-First National). Cinemaddicts who saw Four Daughters, with John Garfield's bitter suicide and Gale Page and the Lane sisters (Priscilla, Rosemary & Lola) winding up behind various eight-balls, may expect quite a turn from this cinema. Daughters Courageous racks the whole bunch up again for a new break-less bruising, less startling, more fun to watch...
...Newton's greater glory. But frustrated Robert Hooke saw, named, described and pictured living cells, and he appears to have been the first to do so. Thereafter numbers of other scientists saw and studied cells.** For a long time the mysterious little chambers of life were called by various names, such as "vesicles," "utricles" and "globules." Then Hooke's original name, "cell," came back into use, and stuck. By the time Schleiden and Schwann appeared on the scene, cells had been identified as independent units, one-celled plants had been discovered, the nucleus (G.H.Q. of a cell...
Government Securities: To check the rise in Government securities in March, April, May, the U. S. Treasury had various Government trust funds sell $90,000,000 of their Governments, but investors with nothing better to do in the last two weeks bid Government securities up to new highs (over 114), thereby reducing interest rates to metaphysical fractions. So New York's great National City Bank complained for all U. S. banks (who now have 60% of their funds invested in Governments): "Treasury bills [are] selling at the virtually non-existent yield of 0.004%, and all maturities of Treasury notes...
...hothouse. The three girls, who were intended to be housewives, reached fame; their only brother, Patrick Branwell Brontë, for whom a "pattern for genius" was traced, was a failure. The effect of his disintegration on his sisters' writings was profound, and he appears in their novels under various names. This is a lucky thing for his biographers, of whom the latest is Author Kinsley...