New Gadgets In A Gadget Bulletin 378 Describes Home Tools
A list of new devices includes aluminum linings for cookware that resist sticking, a vacuum sample collector for drilling, and a home water softener with a synthetic mineral filter. Also featured are a television kit for self assembly, a portable microphone transmitter, a floor and joist alignment tool, a safe magic lasso, and a multipurpose home shop power tool with interchangeable attachments.
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Home Shop Power Tool
Useful Pariah and the Hidden Role of Outsiders
A Refence Service India discussion on the ancient caste system frames pariahs as scavengers and street sweepers. It notes their low status yet essential function in cleansing waste and controlling rodents, while acknowledging society’s pity and contempt.
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India
Down West
New Antibiotics Rise In Germ War From Tomatos To Tears
A survey of advances in antimicrobials traces bacitracin from Columbia University trials to facial abscess relief and potential use in muscle injections. Tomato derived tomatin shows activity against athlete’s foot and other fungi, while lysozyme in tears offers limited therapeutic use. Researchers explore gramicidin and synthetic penicillin, aiming to outpace microbial resistance and broaden treatment beyond boils and abscesses.
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Columbia University
Tracy
Frank L. Meloney
Balbina Johnson
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia
Meloney
Waksman
Winthrop Chemical Company
C. J. Cavallito
Winthrop
Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Department
Beltsville
G. W. Irving, Jr
T. D. Fontaine
Mildew Damage: Home Methods Save Books and Goods
Margaret Furry of the U S Department of Agriculture explains early removal of mildew protects fabrics paper leather and wood. Sun and air dry surfaces use mild soap suds dilute alcohol and brushing to remove mold from upholstery rugs leather wallpaper and books. For severe cases formaldehyde fumigation is warned but not a preventive method.
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Margaret Furry
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Human Nutrition
Science Service
Predicting happiness in marriage from basic social factors
University of Southern California sociologist Harvey J. Locke reports in the American Sociological Review that length of acquaintance before marriage and two main factors called conventionality and sociability relate to marital happiness. Regular church attendance and early Sunday school involvement correlate with better adjustment, with higher church attendance stronger for men. divorced individuals show lower church participation.
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Harvey J. Locke
University of Southern California
American Sociollogical Review
Locke
Mr. Locke
Science Service
Vanishing Chestnut's Comeback by Hybrid Tree Researchers
Dr Frank Thone explains how native American chestnuts vanished due to a fungus blight. Research at Washington area plots by Gravatt and Clapper develops blight resistant hybrids from Chinese and American parents to restore chestnut wood and nuts and gain hybrid vigor for faster growing trees.
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New York
America
Tennessee
Mississippi
Orient
China
Japan
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Washington, D. C
U. S. Department of Agriculture
G. F. Gravatt
Russell
Clapper
Science Service
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U.S
D. C
Tomatoes
Robert Robertson
Oxford
Joseph H. Kraus
Science Clubs of America
Wrisk Broom
Iperborate
By Science Service
Johnny
Mary
Frank Thone
Longfellow
Russell B. Clapper
Department of Agriculture
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