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...bill before the House was almost a carbon copy of the housing bill already passed by the Senate, which had the support of many Republicans-including Robert Taft (TIME, May 2). But in the House, a group of Republicans led by Minority Leader Joe Martin and Indiana's Charlie Halleck fought the bill every inch of the way. It was, Halleck shouted, "another dangerous plunge in ... our headlong rush to overcentralization of control...
...made of certain amino acid molecules linked together in chains. What they do not know is how the chains are put together. The plan is to find out how the silkworms do it. Professor Williams is injecting mature worms with various amino acids which are made radioactive by carbon 14. After a while the worms start spinning their cocoons. If their silk turns out radioactive, it may prove that the particular amino acids injected by Professor Williams were used to form its protein...
...odor, human or otherwise, seems to attract mosquitoes. Temperature may have something to do with it. A glass cylinder filled with water at blood heat is often attacked by swarms of hungry mosquitoes. A moist towel heated electrically gets the same attention. Some investigators think mosquitoes are attracted by carbon dioxide in the human breath. But neither theory explains how mosquitoes find their victims at a distance...
...carried a fearsome cargo-eighty 55-gallon drums of carbon disulphide, a poisonous and volatile chemical used as a solvent in making rayon and rubber goods. When it had trundled three-fourths of a mile along the echoing, white-tiled, two-mile tube, one of the drums mysteriously exploded. Glaring gouts of flame and clouds of choking yellow fumes burst from the trailer; the driver took one horrified look in his rear-vision mirror, jumped out, ran and leaped on a truck passing in the other lane...
...odoriferous factories. It is crude, they think, to conceal a bad smell by a stronger, pleasanter odor. A more efficient method is to get rid of the bad smell itself. This can often be done by washing it out of the air with water or absorbing it in activated carbon...