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...Franklin Roosevelt has so far himself said nothing whatever about this year's Florida primaries. But when James Roosevelt stopped off in Palm Beach last winter, he glibly announced: "It is our sincere hope that he [Claude Pepper] will be returned to the Senate." Mark Wilcox's acid comment: "The State of Florida is waiting with bated breath to see what stand Sistie and Buzzie [Dall] will take...
...cyanide eggs were dropped into a pan of sulfuric acid; at 10:39:30 the fumes reached the pig. It staggered to its feet nine times. At 10:40:05 it fell to the bottom of the cage. At 10:41:40 all reflex actions stopped, two minutes 20 seconds after the start of the execution...
...other drugs should be used with sulfanilamide, "except sodium bicarbonate. . . . Any preparation which produces a watery stool such as magnesium sulfate [Epsom salts] and other cathartics may aggravate the deleterious effects of sulfanilamide. Hydrochloric acid and coal tar derivatives may act similarly. . . . The colon should be kept free from food residues by a cleansing enema before treatment is started, and a low-residue diet . . . containing few eggs should be given...
...preview of a lethal chamber which its makers, Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, thought would end all such doubt. Resting on a chair inside was a cage in which waited a small, reddish-brown pig. When a lever was pulled, dropping 16 cyanide eggs into pans of sulfuric acid, thin blue fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died hard. Nine times the pig staggered to its feet and collapsed. The ninth time, three minutes and 25 seconds later, its corkscrew tail straightened...
...m.p.h., it plunges into a slot, is caught by a set of rollers in a circle and, in a red mist it coils itself into a spool, is deposited on a moving belt ready for "pickling." This is the trade's name for a brief bath in acid to wash off all scale before the sheet steel is cold-rolled under more huge "stands'' to give it proper thinness and finally annealed in another furnace to give it proper ductility and resilience...