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...Pfizer pig-brooder the recording plays every hour on the hour, 24 hours a day. The little pigs thrive mightily under this forced draught. None are trampled or eaten; no luckless runts are left teatless. Pfizer says that out of 3,000 pigs scientifically nursed on six farms, only 5% died. The normal mortality under the sow's regimen is 21% to 33%. The pigs grow faster, too. They reach 28 Ibs. in six weeks instead of the normal eight weeks, and they attain marketable size 40 days earlier...
...more than 4,000 trained psychiatrists, concentrated in a few areas. Chief problem of the Army, in its effort to keep out wackies, is how to divide 4,000 by 6,253 draft boards. Chief brooder over this tricky psycho-arithmetic problem is redhaired, chunky Colonel Leonard George Rowntree of Philadelphia Institute for Medical Research. Colonel Rowntree's best solution to date: a group of 600 psychiatrists delegated to medical advisory boards in about 50 key cities. These psychiatrists conduct two-day seminars in various regions to tip off local board physicians to neurotic danger signals. As an example...
...dummy and power was already flowing through Rosedale Farm. Inside the farmhouse were electric clocks, an air-cooling system, a vacuum cleaner with headlights, refrigerator, dishwasher, food-mixer, curling irons. In the farm shop lathes and tools were electrically operated. Wood was cut by an electric saw. In the brooder house chicks were warmed in an electric incubator, while in the poultry house hens were urged to extra efforts by ultraviolet ray lamps. Hogs were kept in their wallow by an electric fence which gave them a 90-volt jolt if they touched it. An electric sprinkler system kept...
...Wabash Blues," still calls himself Dresser.) Born in Indiana in 1871, he wrote for newspapers (Chicago Globe}, was traveling correspondent for St. Louis Globe-Democrat, edited Butterick Publications (Delineator, Designer, New Idea). Fat-cheeked, loose-lipped, furrowed of brow, Author Dreiser looks like what he is: a puzzled brooder over the tragic inconsistencies of life. Other books: The "Genius," Chains, Jennie Gerhardt, Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy...