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...California Institute of Technology, Physicist Alexander Goetz has worked out a chemical method for the National Research Council. His aim: to replace the salts in sea water (which prevent water from passing through the intestinal walls into the blood stream) with less harmful salts. The resulting liquid "cheats the palate and the kidneys," but will keep a man alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drop to Drink | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...production boom pyramided the income boom. The Department of Agriculture, reporting cash farm income for March up 13.5% over February, noted that "since May 1940, the seasonally adjusted index . . . has risen sharply with only minor interruptions." SEC reported that, despite the biggest tax on payments in history, total liquid savings of individuals in the first quarter of 1943 stood at $9.9 billion. Of this a whopping $4.3 billion was in cash and demand bank deposits and only $2.6 billion ($300 million above the last quarter of 1942) was stored away in war bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Cash v. the Cushion | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...Liquid soapless shampoo is gentler and more effective than ordinary soap for washing fuel oil from shipwrecked men, is now included in first-aid kits on many U.S. ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wartime Technology, May 31, 1943 | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

Provider. The will of Sea Captain William Jensen of Bayonne, N.J. provided $500 so that his friends might be "liberally supplied with liquid refreshments and a hot dance band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 24, 1943 | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...because the grains are spherical rather than rod-shaped) is formed chemically, not mechanically. It need be dry and dangerous for only a short time. Nitrocellulose, immersed in ten times its bulk of water, is liquefied by various chemicals, among them ethyl acetate, much used in nail polish. The liquid nitrocellulose rises to the surface of the water as a creamy lacquer. Stirring breaks it into globules, like olive oil in salad dressing. Other chemicals keep the tiny pellets separate. Speed of stirring determines the size of the grains of powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Keep Your Powder Wet | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

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