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...freezing," says Engineer Donnelly, "functions as an anesthetic to avoid damage to the tissues, fats and cells during the squeeze.") He reports reductions in volume (over and above dehydration reductions) of 90% for sauerkraut, 80% for cabbage, 75% for potatoes, 65% for onions, beets and carrots, 50% for egg powder, prepared desserts, dehydrated soups. Beef for stews in one-inch chunks squeezes down 70%, hamburger bulk is reduced 55%. Puffed rice, voluminous as a pound of feathers, can be compressed 86%. Puffed rice, combined with powdered skim milk and sugar in a lozenge, can, with the addition of warm water...
...Among his students: Margaret Mead (And Keep Your Powder Dry, TIME, Nov. 30), Colum bia's Ruth Benedict, Yale's Edward Sapir, Northwestern's Melville Jean Herskovits, the late Elsie Clews Parsons, University of Cali fornia's Alfred L. Kroeber, Harvard's Alfred Marston Tozzer, University of New Mexico's Leslie Spier, University of Pennsylvania's John Alden Mason...
...need for tartaric acid is serious for munitions, baking powder, synthetic silk, photographic materials, candy. The U.S. requires at least 15,000,000 Ib. annually. Foreign sources of argols and lees (crusts and dregs) of winery wastes...
...Contralto Glade promptly wrote: "You may consider this your release of any criticism on my part for any physical damage I may receive tonight as the result of your usually vigorous and dynamic portrayal of Don José. The public does not want nor does it expect a polite, powder-puff version of Carmen. I have confidence in you as an artist and a gentleman. You may feel free to act as realistically as the role demands...
...crowd of researchers from the National Exposition of Chemical Industries at Chicago witnessed the demonstrations. They compared photographs already made with the large instrument, revealing unsuspected details in the structure of metals, pigments, powder, oils and in the anatomy of bacteria and viruses. Physicians were especially eager: some expect the conquest of diseases like the common cold, influenza and infantile paralysis, caused by viruses invisible except in the electron microscope...