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...first man died, raving; on the 14th day their water gave out, two more died. They tried to make a condenser to get fresh water, but had little success. On the iyth day the chief engi- neer died. With part of his body they made a broth. "The salt in the sea water in which the flesh was boiled was absorbed by the flesh, leaving the broth free from salt and not unpleasant to taste. The flesh was like tough veal." On the 23d day the survivors drank the blood from a fresh corpse. Next day they sighted land...
President Hicks is a Salt Lake City Mormon of a family prominent in Utah. He has had over 20 years experience as a mine operator; has prospected and visited mining properties from Hudson Bay to lower California, now is president of three mining companies and connected with many another. But what makes him especially suited for his new position is the fact that he served for eight years (1921-29) as Director of Utah Securities Commission, state of many mining promotions. He wrote the Utah Securities Act, a classic. In 1925-26 he was president of the National Association...
...communities near actual mining operations, mine shares are always great attractions. In Spokane, Vancouver, Denver, Calgary, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City, bankers and laborers take frequent fliers in penny stocks. Toronto and Montreal are scenes of a tremendous turnover in mining shares. In the unlisted department of the Toronto market are such divergencies as International Nickel, Subbury Mines (1½?), Imperial Oil (Standard of New Jersey Subsidiary), Murphy (3?), Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting, Big Missouri (62?, controlled by Consolidated Mining & Smelting...
...Wrenshall developed a chaulmoogric acid in combination with an inorganic acid group. This is soluble in water, can be administered with an ordinary hypodermic syringe. More water-soluble than this double acid itself, and so more easily administered, is the sodium salt of this new acid. Tried out on dogs the Wrenshall acid, he reported, proved some six times more therapeutically active than the older ethyl-esters. The Territorial board of health decided to use at once the acid compound on human lepers...
Most men take the course because they are led by its title to believe that they will be fed a lot of the kind of literature they love. This stuff is served to them, indeed, but so spiced with the salt and pepper of Mr. Babbitt's with that its taste is strange...