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...once heard an old salt settle an argument about the extent of the Admiralty's legal authority: ''I tells you all that the Admiralty can do what they like with us. They can hang us, they can shoot us, and they can drown us. There's only two things they can't do to us: they can't boil us in the coppers and they can't put us in the family way." He is equally delighted to remember the disdain of one Chawbags Bayly for the microscopic difference between senior and junior...
Like dinitrophenol, Prontosil is an aro matic coal tar product. Prontosil's full chemical formula is the disodium salt of 4-sulph-amido-phenyl-2-azo-7-acetylamino-1-hydroxynaphthalene 3.6-disulfonic acid. All doctors fear new drugs derived from coal tar. They may exhibit unexpected deadliness. In the case of Prontosil, since like dinitrophenol it affects the production of white blood cells, it comes under the medical rule of thumb: what ever stimulates may also destroy. And it may be that the new drug by which Dr. Tobey cured Franklin Roosevelt Jr.'s septic sore throat...
Because it is a low-lying alluvial plain. the entire coastal fringe of Louisiana is as soggy as a piece of fresh bread dunked in soup. Crisscrossed by bayous and canals. the Louisiana salt marshes cover nearly 20,000 sq. mi., worthless except as a wildlife sanctuary and for many rich "domes" of oil and sulphur which lie beneath. To locate these deposits is hard work. In most places the swamp is so treacherous it will engulf a man standing upright. In most places no normal vehicle can proceed. Prospectors have tried boats, rafts, carts with big wheels but still...
...British sea captain relaxing under a palm tree with a Tahitian belle, while another seaman peered off a cliff through a spyglass. Heading: "George VI Looking Over His Vast Empire WITH MR. SIMPSON AT SEA And the Prime Minister Turning His Back and Howling." Publisher was billed as the Salt House Press, of No. 14 East Hamilton Street, Baltimore...
Michigan is contiguous to more fresh water than any other State in the U. S. Four of the five Great Lakes provide all but two of Michigan's borders. Yet within 50 miles of fresh water in Michigan there is an inexhaustible supply of salt water. From briny depths 1,200 ft. or more beneath the earth's surface the 39-year-old Dow Chemical Co. daily pumps thousands of gallons of water from which it makes hundreds of products. Seat of the briny grand duchy of Dow is Midland, whose citizens once brought suit against Founder Herbert...