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TIME's account [April 4] of the execution of a small reddish-brown pig at San Quentin. Calif, was incorrect. The pig actually dropped unconscious, never to rise again, in twenty seconds and in all probability it was dead within a minute...
...against a bullet-proof glass wall in California's San Quentin prison to watch a preview of a lethal chamber which its makers, Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, thought would end all such doubt. Resting on a chair inside was a cage in which waited a small, reddish-brown pig. When a lever was pulled, dropping 16 cyanide eggs into pans of sulfuric acid, thin blue fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died hard. Nine times the pig staggered...
...made up several 80-gal. batches of sulfanilamide solution. This was labeled an elixir, a technical pharmacological term for a drug sweetened and dissolved in alcohol, and shipped to 375 retailers. The retailers, one as far away as Puerto Rico, dispensed this "elixir" with and without prescriptions, in reddish brown flasks whose yellow labels read...
...possible to construct a table which would have exactly the same form. In a dining room such a table would not be useful; in a decorative painting its form may be. For the same reason Braque's colors, from the vivid yellow triangle of the tablecloth through the reddish brown of the wickerwork basket, the darker red of the shadow form at the right of the table, the grey-blues and green-blues of the structural background, are an improvement on the colors light would make in an ordinary room. To painters, Braque's stucco-textured colors themselves...
...lungs are two irregular conical shaped organs occupying the chest. At birth and for three weeks thereafter they are white. Gradually they darken to yellowish grey or reddish grey in the adult. People who live in smoky cities like St. Louis (TIME, Feb. 22) have their lungs marbled with black and blue lines from particles of soot. Coal miners' lungs are black, copper miners' are blue...