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...fire must have been raging half an hour before anyone down in the engineering force knew anything about it. At about 3 o'clock the bridge signalled the engine room to stand by. A few minutes later came an order to search the engine room for signs of fire. At 3:10 full speed ahead on the starboard engine was ordered. The steering gear had burned away and Captain Warms wanted to swing the Morro Castle around for a swing toward the shore. At 3 :30 came the order to stop the engines. Engineers groped through smoke and darkness...
...when Hoist and Frolich inflicted it on guinea pigs, tested the curative potency of vegetables. In 1932 Professor A. Szent-Gyorgyi found that hexuronic acid from adrenal glands had powerful antiscorbutic properties, and soon thereafter the name was changed to ascorbic acid and identified with Vitamin C. After long search for raw material from which the vitamin could be mined in quantity, Szent-Gyorgyi turned to the paprika beds near his home in Hungary and in one day obtained a half-pound of his acid. In March last year, Professor Walter Norman Haworth of Birmingham. England determined the vitamin...
...Belgium most tourists find prices attractively cheap, seldom notice the peculiarities of Belgium's liquor control system which drives many a native frantic. Only in the case of Belgians returning home do Belgian customs men search mercilessly for smuggled bottles...
...stores and fortune in 1930. Month ago a stranger approached him, said that he was Armgaard Karl Graves, Wartime spy of the German Secret Service and author of Secrets of the Hohenzollerns, that he and friends had buried $3,000,000 in gold on the coast of Haiti. To search for the treasure Clarence Saunders gave him $1,500, saw no more...
Hero, One of the Northwest's great heroes is husky, hearty Frank Dorbandt. He has rushed serum to many a stricken Eskimo, carried antitoxin to many an ailing Indian, flown many a sick white to far-off hospitals. In 1930 he risked his life in an air search for his onetime flying mate, the late Carl Ben Eielson. In 1932 he made headlines by landing Father Bernard Hubbard inside the smoking volcano of Aniakchak. A longtime fur trader, Hero Dorbandt lately was accused by the Federal Government of smuggling pelts into the U. S. Last month in Seattle...