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...Against this were operating costs of $90,000 (wages, food, fuel, general overhead at $7,500 daily), plus depreciation and interest of $28,200 ($2,350 daily). Result: net loss of $41,700 a trip. The loss to U.S. Lines was less than that. Under the Bailey-Bland (ship relief) Act of 1940, most of its losses will be paid by the Government...
...right shoulder blade-she had best have her gall bladder removed. There is no method of dissolving gallstones, no medical treatment to cure colic, no diet which will heal a scarred sac. Once her gall bladder is removed, a woman can get on very well, provided she follows a bland diet...
This song, New San Antonio Rose, may baffle or even irritate fastidious rhetoricians, and its tune is strictly golden bantam. Yet last week Decca Records reported that in January alone the song had sold 84,500 discs-sung by the Caruso of the juke boxes, bland Bing Crosby...
...miles from the Navy's base at Pearl Harbor, as nothing more than a nest of Japanese spies. Army and Navy men think so too. Many a destroyer commander on patrol before Pearl Harbor has stopped a fancy, high-powered motorboat inside the restricted zone, has had bland apologies from its Japanese crew. But none has failed to notice that the boat's brightwork was gleaming, that the three or four men aboard looked uncommon bright and neat for fishermen, had binoculars handy. Thickening the mystery was the fact that many of these fishing craft were owned...
...balloons filled with capsules to be exchanged for boxes of candy, miniature radios, other favors. During an absurd game of Truth or Consequences, Heavyweight Lou Nova ran a foot race, impeded by a hastily donned corset. The most implausible feature of the entertainment came when, as another Consequence, bland, dinner-jacketed Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd (in front of 1,500 invitees) was prevailed upon to thrust his head into a golden canary cage and allow himself to be fed crackers while he quavered "I'm Only A Bird In A Gilded Cage...