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Stahmann is looking beyond the mere marketing of frozen geese, is already figuring out new commercial uses for feathers and down (e.g., a goosedown powder puff), expects to sell a lot of down for army bedrolls. Eventually he thinks he may make more out of the feathers than the geese...
There was no way to get the dried blood out of the tubes, so the lab ground up glass, blood and all into a powder, then added liquid and strained the mess. Dr. Novy was as amazed as everybody else when he found that the liquid contained live virus, still capable of killing rats after 30-odd years of desiccation. Now, with younger assistants, Dr. Novy is back at work trying to find out what the virus may mean...
Bonny, bouncing François Lejeune, six months old, was one of those babies whose pink bottoms are easily irritated. Like many other French mothers, Mrs. Lejeune sprinkled the tender parts with Baumol baby powder. But instead of getting better, tiny François got redder, ran a fever and cried incessantly. The doctor said it was 1) colic, 2) teething, 3) oversensitive skin. Mrs. Lejeune rocked the baby, carried him about, bathed him and dusted him with Baumol. But one day poor François' skin burst out into big abscesses. Rushed to the hospital, he was given...
...shutters over the windows of an unused gas station on the heavily traveled Boston Post Road. Leading a raid one afternoon last week, Giancola found that the building had been turned into a bristling arms dump: 1,000 rifle grenades, 1,000 bazooka shells, cases of rifle ammunition, napalm powder for making jellied gasoline, 900 parachute grenades with the chutes removed and napalm inserted. The chief was still staring in surprise when a 1953 Packard drove up, bearing Manhattan Arms Merchant Alfred Manheim...
Cannon sports 16 to 20 inches with two inches surface powder. Skiing is excellent on both upper and lower. Laconia has 7 to 10 inches with 8 new inches of powder. Skiing is fair to good...