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...Fairchild Aviation Corp. announced development of a device which enables military plane pilots to take photographs of ground objectives at night, at altitudes up to 5,000 ft. The airman drops a powerful magnesium-powder flash bulb equipped with a time fuse which explodes it near the ground. The flash actuates a photoelectric cell in the plane, which instantly trips the camera shutter...
...first diphtheria antitoxin from Europe to the U. S., Dr. Warren Vaughan tells in his book about all that a layman needs or wants to know about allergy-how "sensitization" takes place, its bodily results, its myriad agents, its treatment. From kapok to camel's hair to cockroach powder to cosmetics, the list of things to which people are allergic is almost endless...
...strong and deep. At the slightest public hint that something had been bungled in Defense, letters of protest harried the responsible agencies in Washington. The War Department published a long list of U. S. companies. All were out for something (tax concessions), but all were producing something for Defense: powder, trucks, elastic stop nuts, brass & copper, engines, airplanes, cotton cloth, machine tools, worsted, rope. Army lieu tenants (the Valley Forge Military Academy at Wayne, Pa. claimed tax concessions on the ground that it was expanding its capacity to train cadets). President Roosevelt sensed and rode the current...
Lately Sister Mary Jordan Carroll, Professor Fardon and others at the Institutum have been investigating the respiration of cells. From yeast and animal tissue cells they were able to extract an oxidizing agent, which they call biodin, and which stimulates oxygen consumption. After precipitation as a white powder, biodin retains its powers, can be sent back to work to speed up the life fires of injured tissues. Last week, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science convention in Philadelphia, Sister Mary Jordan Carroll demonstrated biodin, with microscope and test tube. Naturally she attracted a good deal of attention...
...herself on the same plane as man and her troubles began. Kitty Foyle is a character-who comes from the wrong side of the track in Philadelphia, yet she is loved by a boy whose name has a VI tacked on. His family disapproves and Kitty takes a powder. After the baby comes and goes Kitty has to make up her mind whether to take a life of thrills or one of security. She takes security. Neither the plot nor the action are important. The emotions of Kitty Foyle as her world is first silver-lined and then shattered...