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Since the Soviet Union has lived in chronic fear of attack by the Capitalist Powers, one of Russia's most popular figures is "Klim," the Minister of the Army, Navy and Air Force, Comrade Klimentiy Efremovich Voroshilov (V). The Red Army is numerically the second strongest in the world (562,000) but Stalin takes no chances. Attached to his nationwide espionage service, the Gay-Pay-Oo, or OGPU, are 110,000 picked troops, the praetorians of the Dictatorship. Never seen on so conspicuous a spot as Lenin's tomb is the Chief of the Gay-Pay-Oo, dyspeptic...
...last week former Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin, no friend of his successor M. Bonnet, submitted a brutal analysis of the budget situation, proved that the Chamber can restore stability, but only by wholesale cuts in veterans' pensions and civil servants' salaries, by a drastic drive against chronic French income tax frauds, and by imposing new taxes so crushing that the Chamber seemed likely to balk. Warning that if France wants to avoid inflation, the Frenchman's nightmare, she must make heroic sacrifices, M. Germain-Martin said...
...chronic carper, Mr. Simmonds found much good to report to British airmen...
...bear children and probably to be sterilized if contraceptive measures fail are women who have tuberculosis of the lungs, chronic Bright's disease, serious heart disease, certain mental disorders, or have had three caesarean operations...
...hair, it is a genetically recessive characteristic, whereas resistance to cancer is like dark hair, a dominant characteristic. Susceptibility alone probably is not enough to insure a person's developing a cancer. There must also be an external factor (a bruise, for example) reacting with an internal factor (chronic irritation of the stomach, for example). Breeding mice, caring for them until they died of age or disease, and then cutting them open for microscopic study led Professor Slye to these conclusions. She started raising mice when she was a tiny child but her actual work began in 1908 when...