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...President Roosevelt could & would not tarry on details because: 1) cotton mills have lately been boosting production to finish as much goods as possible at cheap rates before their costs go up; 2) on July 17 it will be 31 days since the Recovery Administration began to function; 3) big industries were beginning to lag in submitting their codes to Washington for approval...
...first task is to restore prices to a level at which industry and above all, agriculture, can function profitably and efficiently...
...newly discovered function of the adrenals which Columbia University's Professor Raymund Lull Zwemer recognizes, is the regulation of salt and water in the body. This power resembles the power of insulin on sugar, the parathyroid on calcium, the thyroid on iodine. Common salt benefits cases of Addison's disease, a disease caused by defective adrenals...
...much-publicized electrical companies-General Electric and Westinghouse-supply most of the U. S. with lamp bulbs. In Europe that function is performed chiefly by potent Philips Glow-lampworks of Holland, which also boasts one of the finest physical research laboratories east of the Atlantic. Last week it appeared that all three companies were working independently on the same thing -a new sodium vapor bulb to be used primarily for street lighting. In Manhattan, 100-odd members, of the New York Electrical Society sat like jaundiced mummies in an auditorium suffused with the yellow sodium light while their president described...
Goiter is fundamentally a thyroid enlargement. To the thyroid function cheery Dr. Crile has tried to apply his electronic theory of life (TIME, Dec. 5. et ante), a theory to which his colleagues listen with aseptic indulgence. Said Dr. Crile in Memphis: "What we eat is radiation. Our food is so much quanta of energy, not in that inert word calories, but quanta. The sun shines upon our food products, and the sun shines secondarily within us. in the body's protoplasm. Energy contained in food is put there by the sun's radiation on the atoms...