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...made good by the contractors. Cost: $20,000 each. The Navy borrowed half a gram of radium from Johns Hopkins University to discover the flaws. Capable of penetrating 16 in. armor plate, the radium's gammarays were used to photograph the rudder castings much as a dentist x-rays a tooth. Flaws or pockets in the steel showed as distinct blotches in the finished pictures...
...when a big fire breaks out, is the little group of men & women who strive for fame as flying passengers. Such a one is Mrs. Clara Adams of Tannersville, Pa. who flew last week via Pan-American Airways to Rio de Janeiro, there to board the laggard giant DO-X for its flight...
...Manhattan, Hattie Brown, 25, a housemaid, gulped when questioned about a ring stolen from her mistress. An X-ray picture revealed the ring in her stomach...
...Other noteworthy 1931 births: to onetime President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico (son, premature); Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. (daughter); William Henry Vanderbilt (twins, forecast by X-ray); Emperor Hirohito of Japan (daughter); Sir Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir (son, winning him a large wager...
...blisters and applying cool wet dressings of diluted aluminum acetate liquor or of saturated boric acid; painting daily with a strong solution of permanganate of potash, tincture of iodine, or mercurochrome; anointing with a salve of salicylic and benzoic acids, of ammoniated mercury, or of chrysarobin; exposing to X-rays; soaking in gasoline (six or eight seconds). Combinations of the above may be dangerous...