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...Opry is a four-hour, mountain-music hoe-down broadcast every Saturday night by WSM, Nashville, Tenn., and carried in part over a network of 25 southern NBC Stations. It has been on the air 14 years, now has eight sponsors (main account: Prince Albert Tobacco; others: lamps, cough drops, chicory, even snuff). A half -hour of it is now recorded for Prince Albert, put on the air in Los Angeles, Denver, Kansas City, Minneapolis...
...gray sign, nailed up. local headquarters huddled lines of people. hall cold and drafty the boy's cough, every night. stomach hurts huddled lines of sacks, shapeless, lumps. crawling, crawling in the queues. a desk, brass label...my baby...I'd like to be...about an allowance... asking asking asking...
...first sign of a cold, Bock said, usually gives the patient a chance of being altogether better within three days. Failing to get to bed, however, often results in a week or ten days of affliction in addition to about three weeks of a bad cough...
...tiny silica or quartz particles which cause silicosis are about 3/25,000 of an inch in size. They irritate the lungs, cause formation of small, stony nodules, which bring about shortness of breath, a dry cough, pain in the chest. Silicosis alone is not serious, painful or disabling. Essentially it is just a case of dirty lungs. But silicotics are extraordinarily susceptible to tuberculosis, frequently die from it. Dust from "chat" piles, according to the Kansas State Board of Health, is a potential menace to all Tri-State inhabitants. Only ways to prevent silicosis in the mines...
...weather: "My shoes in the wardrobe are wet, my clothes on their hangers wilt, the cough drops melt in the corked bottle, and the envelopes in the desk all seal themselves." Of servants there were five, among them a little native boy, one of whose chief duties was "to stand with his small bare feet apart and whistle fuzzily." Of household pets there were swarms, domestic and wild...