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Remedy. Quick, decisive action came from the Federal Reserve System, from C. Breed Taylor, deputy governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Out of storm-clouded skies over Tampa dropped an airplane from Atlanta carrying one million dollars in cash. Nervous Tampa depositors, entering their banks, saw in tellers' cages great stacks of crisp, green, reassuring bills. Soon, by rail and motor, arrived an additional $4,000,000. "The banks," said Federal Reservist Taylor, "will have all the money they need...
Diphtheria is an acute communicable disease of childhood. Bacilli breed in the throat, cause grey patches to form there, sometimes produce growth of false membranes which block the breathing...
...Alsatians in Australia cross-breed with the ferocious wild dingo, chief enemy of Australian flocks...
Devotees of Just So Stories are familiar with Yellow-Dog Dingo and his fabled speed. The dingo or warrigal (Canis dingo) is a stocky sand-colored wild dog, in size half way between a jackal and a wolf. Peculiar to Australia, so ancient is the dingo breed that its fossilized bones are found intermingled with those of the extinct giant kangaroo and giant wombat. Bitter are the scientific disputes whether the dingo is really indigenous to Australia or whether it was brought there by prehistoric man from Malaya. More important than academic wrangles is the problem of recently imported Alsatian...
...year ago in Britain the sheep-worrying propensities of Alsatian Shepherds were being bitterly discussed. On the side of the Alsatians was Edward of Wales. Temporarily deserting Cora the Cairn terrier (TIME, June 3), he bought an Alsatian as a gesture of confidence in the breed...