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Several summers ago, Dr. Foulger learned that Bantu miners in South Africa sweat out large quantities of vitamin C (found in oranges and lemons), frequently develop muscle weakness, even though they eat plenty of fresh fruits & vegetables. With this clue in mind, Du Pont doctors gave their workers two vitamin C tablets (ascorbic acid) a day, along with common salt tablets, to replenish the salt lost in perspiration. Result: cases of heat exhaustion, formerly four or five a day, disappeared, even when the temperature soared to over 100 degrees. The pills, said Dr. Foulger, "should prove useful in steel mills...
...involves more handwork than in Europe, where it is a highly mechanized art. So far the best apprentice jewel cutters have been nimble-fingered seamstresses. Grumbled a master jewel cutter last week: "We have been called upon to do a staggering job without having time to develop the machine methods it took the Swiss 100 years to develop...
...Modern industry, relatively unknown in this part of prewar China, has been successfully introduced under government leadership and encouragement. State ownership and operation of the heavy industries, private capitalism with government regulation for the light industries, and cooperation for small-scale, decentralized, handicraft industries, and agriculture-all of which develop rapidly in the course of war-promise to give now forms of economic organization that may be further developed in a post-war China...
...fashioned plaster cast, leave the cast undisturbed for many weeks until the wound has healed. This closed plaster method prevents many an amputation, reduces infection to a minimum, allows soldiers to be moved with no ill effects. Only drawback: after a week or so the wounds develop a foul stench. Last week Dr. Allan Dinsmore Wallis and Researcher Margaret J. Dilworth of Philadelphia told how they prevented the smell by simply placing lactose (milk sugar) solution on wounds before enclosing them in plaster. Apparently, said the scientists, the lactose provides food for harmless bacteria in the wounds, prevents them from...
...toughest problem he had: to make a practical filter for a Diesel generator that so far had rendered useless the radio that had to go in the same car. In two months, Tobe's engineers had the thing licked, and before long they had gone on to develop a new filter for Army cars that cut the old cost from $80 to $15, cut the space it took up by 50 times, saved time, metal, labor...