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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smell of fish, fowl, game, plants, men, sea water and crude oil steamed into Sydney, Nova Scotia, last week; took on a supply of fuel oil and at once left for Wiscasset, Me., its home port. It was the Bowdoin, Arctic exploration ship of Commander Donald B. MacMillan. His months of collecting showed that many specimens of plant and animal life existed farther north than scientists heretofore have realized. Commander MacMillan shut off from world news so long, was most eager to hear about trans-atlantic airplane flights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: MacMillan's Return | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Paris last week he twitted the U. S. clubmen on their distaste for water. Water, he assured them, could now be safely drunk almost anywhere in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pure French Water | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...American Club members he retold how he had helped make eau potable a wide reality in France. It began at Verdun, during the War. Water was polluted; typhoid threatened the troops. He invented an automatic device to pump hypochlorite of soda into the drinking water. Two and a half to five pounds of hypochlorite liberated enough chlorine to kill the germs in one million gallons of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pure French Water | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...help prevent infection, as will the strict use of personal soaps and towels. Writes Surgeon General Gumming: "Probably the general tendency of the American public to spend a certain amount of time in hotels is largely responsible for the increase of this disease. There is no good proof that water in swimming pools is in any way responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ringworm | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...There is a gentleman," observed the Wall Street Journal, cautiously, last week, "who heads a large salt company who also has salty tastes. On his estate in the outskirts of a Pennsylvania city he has built a large swimming pool, containing salt water. Every two weeks the water is renewed and two tons of salt are used to make the solution sufficiently saline. In the salt manufacturer's house there is a salt water system, so that the benefits of synthetic ocean bathing may be enjoyed without leaving the privacy of one's bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sufficiently Saline | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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