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Arthur B. Lamb, Erving Professor of Chemistry, emeritus, and Frederick G. Keyes, Chairman Emeritus of the department of Chemistry at M.I.T., were employed by Alfred Bicknell Associates, a Cambridge firm, to perfect the Alcometer, which accurately measures a person's alcohol content by taking an electrochemical sniff of his breath...
...device looks very promising to me," said Lamb. "It will undoubtedly be very significant in the control of drunken driving. Besides being valuable for legal evidence, it is useful for the person who wants to know if he has had too much to drink for safe driving...
...Birthday bargain binge, which was started by the Mode men's shop in 1919. Now almost all stores take part. Like Mickey Margoles, other Washingtonians had waited in nightlong vigils to get reconditioned typewriters for 99^, toasters, waffle irons and percolators (used) for 9^ each, a $500 Persian lamb coat for $15, reconditioned washing machines for $9. In nearby Alexandria a 1939 Plymouth went for 89^. A Mrs. E. M. Schott came from Youngstown, Ohio to buy two fur pieces, one a silver-blue mink scarf (price...
...employees with furious energy. He stores away facts like an electronic thinker and concentrates on problems with the intensity of a stargazer. When concentrating, he often pops caramels into his mouth without thinking to take off the wrappers, has been known to eat the paper frills off lamb chops. Once, in a comparatively relaxed mood, Wood was playing cards with his son when the carpet caught fire from a live coal. Wood never noticed the flames, though they were right before his eyes...
...Arthur B. Lamb, professor of chemistry, emeritus, and now a director of Ionics, Inc., of Cambridge, said that the much greater economy afforded by the process opens a new era in the purification of sea water...