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...white blood cells which normally should number 7,500 per cu. mm. multiply in some cases to as much as1,000,000 per cu. mm. Overproduction comes from the blood-making (hematopoietic) elements of the spleen, marrow and lymph glands. Death invariably results-for acute cases within three months. Chronic cases may hang on for five years or longer. Radium and x-rays, arsenic or benzol cautiously administered for a time slow up the excess white cell production. Transfusion of normal blood has little effect, at least in leukemic children...
...veteran with one leg shot off in battle who that very morning had hobbled into his office to protest a cut in his disability compensation from $100 to $40. Michigan's Vandenberg told of a veteran suffering with gunshot wounds in the back, hernia, arthritis and chronic nervousness who was about to lose $82 of his $90 monthly pension. "That means," cried Senator Vandenberg, "he'll get shot in the back a second time-this time by the Govern-ment." The chamber rang with protests against "the horrors of this new deal . . . its unspeakable cruelties . . . its indefensible hardships...
...chronic experimenter, he has tried cross-breeding flowers, chickens, cattle, with no definite results. He thinks, weather forecasting is on a wrong scientific basis. He bought a 6-ft. telescope, set it up on the lawn of his Des Moines home, spent nights stargazing. When he started to work out his own weather theory he was stumped on calculus...
Died. Abram Edward Fitkin, 54, Manhattan public utilities operator who sold out before the Crash, bought back afterwards; of chronic myocarditis and interstitial neuritis: in Manhattan. Son of an English-born harness-maker, he gave up trying to be a Pentecostal minister, built up a huge chain of utilities. He sold his National Public Service Corp. to Day & Zimmerman, Inc. in 1926 for reputedly $250,000,000 and Inland Power & Light...
After Schaaf's death Dr. Charles Norris, chief medical examiner, ordered dissection of the brain. His assistants hardened the organ, sliced it microscopically thin. The microscope showed that Schaaf, before he went into his last fight, had been suffering from a chronic or subacute inflammation of the brain. In January he had an attack of influenza. Dr. Norris reported: "The cause of the inflammation cannot be known with certainty, but it may be referred to the ... influenza with a reasonable degree of probability." When monstrous Primo Camera understood what this meant, he was vastly relieved...