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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teeth of 15,000 children in the Middle West. Last year he issued a report of his findings that shocked every dentist in the U. S. left Oakley parents down in the mouth. Said he: "The amount of caries [decay] is less in mottled enamel areas than in normal areas. ..." Although fluorine makes ugly smiles, it preserves teeth "independently of mottled enamel." To the known factors causing tooth decay (too many starches and sweets, not enough vitamins, an abundance of mouth bacteria) he suggested that his colleagues add lack of fluorine. There is a possibility, he said, "of partially controlling...
...Chile when war started. Short of fuel, she stopped at an uninhabited South Sea island for a month, while her crew hewed and loaded firewood, made sails out of hatch covers and tarpaulins. Alternately sailing (1,507 miles) and steaming (3,319 miles), she made Chile in five weeks (normal: two weeks), after burning most of her furniture and cabin floors...
...test, Dr. Althausen feeds his patients 40 grams of galactose, a sugar derived from milk and certain gummy plants, but not normally present in human blood. After an hour, a drop of blood is taken from an ear lobe, and tested for the presence of galactose. A normal person will have from 20 to 30 milligrams of the sugar in every hundred cubic centimetres of blood; a hyperthyroid. around 70 milligrams; a diabetic, whose thyroid is not stepped up, shows the same amount of galactose as a normal person, although, of course, his blood and urine are saturated with unused...
After a side foray at industrial design, a field he left after turning out a streamlined harmonica so big that a normal man couldn't get his mouth around it, Nat Karson headed straight for Broadway. Now it keeps him as busy as brokers ever did. In the past five years he has done sets for 35 Broadway productions. Near tops in Broadway stage painting last season was Nat Karson's rapid-fire blend of Negro jazz and Japanese formalism in the sets of the Hot Mikado. His latest, Let's Go, opened last week...