Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Consolidated Paper Corp., of Montreal, Canada, asked if the siren could be used to combat bacteria in paper stock and water...
...volunteers) varied enormously in resistance to oxygen poisoning; and each individual varied greatly from day to day. One man was poisoned in seven minutes one day, resisted the same dose for nearly 2½ hours another day. For some unknown reason, people are more vulnerable to oxygen poisoning under water than under the same pressure in a pressure chamber. And at a pressure of one atmosphere or less (as in high-altitude flight), human beings apparently can breathe pure oxygen indefinitely without harm...
...last week, Kentucky's Alben William Barkley stood up to give his views. Said he: "If every organization in the United States . . . endorsed the bill I would still be against it ... it is vicious legislation." The talk was of railroads, said Barkley, but the bill applied also to water carriers, buses, trucks, pipelines and freight forwarders. It would "impose a transportation monopoly." Why not exempt U.S. Steel, Alcoa, Standard Oil and International Harvester...
Flossy disagrees with the cynical huckster's view that she is addressing "slobs in a cold-water flat." She scans with a warmly attentive eye her 500 weekly fan letters (suggested one: "Give us lots of love and philosophy"). Mixed in with the love, philosophy, recipes, and "reviews of all the proper books," Flossy also gives them an occasional unscheduled laugh: e.g., when Bing Crosby visited her show, her eyelashes almost fell off when she learned that a baseball game could last longer than nine innings...
Heavy Weather. In Belle Isle, Mich., Motorist Kenneth Blue concluded that the rain was getting much too heavy when his wiper failed to keep water off the windshield, stepped out to investigate, had to swim ashore from the 10 ft. deep lagoon into which he had driven...