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...those which constrict the blood vessels) might help even serious cases. But when the victim tries to breathe the drugs into his lungs as fine mist through a "nebulizer," they do not penetrate deep enough. Struggle as he will, the stiffened sacs remain full of stale air and of carbon dioxide from the blood...
...Concession to the Dead. Bridges had been itching for the showdown since last spring. He was restrained for 80 days by an injunction obtained under the Taft-Hartley Act. When the injunction ran out last week, shippers offered Bridges a carbon copy of the agreement which had been accepted by East Coast, Gulf and Great Lakes unions: let the hiring halls operate as before, until the courts rule on their legality...
...industry is still expanding. Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. (which owns Bakelite, the biggest plastics maker) is stepping up production 50%. Dow Chemical Co. is spending $17 million on new plants. Du Pont has completed a new multimillion-dollar ultramodern plastics factory near Parkersburg, W. Va. Production, which was only 150 million pounds in 1936, this year will hit an estimated 1.6 billion pounds...
Hydrogen and its helium "ashes," while by far the most abundant, are not the only chemical elements which can be detected by sharp-eyed astronomers. The "main sequence" stars have, identically the same-composition as the sun: for every atom of any metal there are some six atoms of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, 500 atoms of helium, and 5,000 atoms of hydrogen (still to be burned). The same proportions of atoms exist in the near vacuum of interstellar space. Not only do the universe's largest bodies behave in much the same fashion as its smallest atoms...
...these were more than made up for by profit increases in food, chemicals, coal, paper, utilities, manufacturing. Some typical nets: $3,543,627 for National Cash Register (up 35%); $24,041,851 for Union Carbide. & Carbon (up 41%). Some exceptional ones: $5,742,000 for General Foods (up 290%), $706,887 for radio-making Admiral Corp...