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...that one teaspoonful of the fluid* taken by mouth, or the fumes from one cupful breathed in a poorly ventilated room, could cause death. It is especially dangerous to people who have been drinking. The doctors' recommendation: manufacturers of cleaning fluids containing carbon tetrachloride should label it poisonous, attach the usual skull & crossbones and explain the conditions under which it is most dangerous...
...balance of trade shows more exports than imports, we have been accustomed in years past to call it a "favorable" balance. It is obviously an imbecility to attach the word "favorable" to a situation in which the outgo exceeds the income. No man would call that situation favorable in his private business or his personal accounts. It is unfavorable...
...unbelievable performance had run longer than most Broadway plays. But last week, after eight months of boorish judge-baiting, earsplitting objections, and windy Marxist double talk, the eleven top Communist leaders charged with conspiring to advocate violent overthrow of the Government finally ended their defense testimony. Weary court attachés guessed that the case would go to the jury within the next three weeks...
Death in a Flue. Not all masters were so "humane." Phillips cites, among many others, the case of Master Joseph Rae who, after an eleven-year-old apprentice had tried for five hours to free himself from a narrow flue, "sent another apprentice up the flue to attach a cord to one of [his] legs. Despite the agonized shrieks of the tortured boy, Rae and another man hauled on their end of the rope with all their strength. Finally, when neither shrieks nor groans were heard, Rae, sensing that the boy was dead, drank a dram of whiskey and left...
Latin American military attachés in Washington were down in the dumps last week. After all the fine talk since war's end about U.S. arms for the Americas, the news had leaked out that the Truman Administration's arms program would leave the Good Neighbors out in the cold...