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...surgeons who never rush into an operation, "too much surgery is done." Reason: Surgery "is easy money-it comes quick and there's lots of it." While family physicians, who suggest operations, are paid very small fees, "the surgeon is the big shot-and big shots cop the coin." Too often the only money a physician gets from an operation is an unethical "cut" the surgeon hands him for bringing in a patient (fee-splitting...
...Zionists campaigned to get 1,000,000 Jews to buy Shekalim at 50? each, entitling them to vote in world Zionist elections. Symbol of Jewish solidarity, a Shekel (see cut) shows a reproduction of an ancient Hebrew coin. In Poland, where Jews are poor, a Shekel costs only a few cents. In the last Zionist voting year, 1937, only 217,214 U. S. Jews bought Shekalim...
...most important question for physics to answer is: What is matter made of? A glass of water or a chinch bug or a copper coin is composed of molecules. The molecules are built of atoms. Twenty years ago the ancient Greek notion persisted that atoms were indivisible. Then Ernest Rutherford of England split nitrogen atoms with atomic bullets from radium. Seven years ago physicists were willing to analyze all the matter in the universe in terms of two parts of the atom: protons and electrons...
...gold and silver reserves of the Bank of Mexico were used up last spring trying to keep the Mexican peso worth 28? . It has now crashed to 20? . Mexicans last week tried to find takers who would accept 210 paper pesos in exchange for one 50-peso silver coin...
...become a deficit of some $40,000,000. If the future looked rosy even to Economic Four-Year-Plan Administrator General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, he would hardly have issued, as he did last week, a decree obliging everyone in Germany to turn over every last gold coin to the State, as did Franklin Roosevelt four years ago. Mostly such coins are ten and 20-mark gold pieces of the German Empire...