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...fusion of joint bones. The hypertrophic form, which usually occurs in older people as a result of wear & tear, is less severe, less painful. The ends of the bones grow thicker and their cartilage coverings slip off and work their way around joint cavities (joint mice), leaving the raw edges of the joint-bones to scrape together...
...From which oil-poor Italy still buys the raw materials to make aviation gasoline which powers planes to shoot at Russian pilots in Spain...
...vegetation found in bogs. Processed peat is used as fuel, fertilizer, insulator, wallboard material, wrapping paper, cloth base. Exide Batteries of Canada, Ltd. uses a type of peat for a secret paint which binds rubber to metal. Domestic Scotch whiskey distillers get their vaunted "Highland peat" flavor by charring raw peat inside their kegs. But though the U.S. has 11,200 square miles of peat bogs (only Russia, Canada...
...extensive potato-boiling. They found "16-19% more ascorbic acid [Vitamin C] left when vegetables are cooked in salt solution than when vegetables are cooked in distilled water." Reason: the salt prevents oxygen from destroying the vitamin. They also found "considerably more ascorbic acid in cooked than in raw potatoes." Reason: the ascorbic acid is partially "frozen" in raw vegetables, becomes released in the boiling process...
...half-hour than any transport plane had ever made the trip before. At an average altitude of 17,000 feet, Howard Hughes and companions found the new oxygen mask comfortable, efficient. Designed by Mayo Clinic Surgeon Richard Lovelace, the mask mixes air with oxygen, eliminates sore throats from raw oxygen fed by other devices. Unimpressed was Howard Hughes when unofficial timers informed him he had set a new record for big ships. Said he: "I am not interested any more in breaking records...