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...course sympathizers will bleat their Communist-taught singsong about "labor-haters" in order to keep Labor's "sacred cow" status but they're overplaying their hands now and the public will back the corrective measures...
Food Allergy. Babies may become sensitized to foods for life when, instead of living on mothers' milk, they "have to digest as best they can potentially harmful 'foreign proteins' that come from a cow." Adults may become sensitized to some foods because "on a certain occasion they ate so much of some food that all of it could not be digested and some of it passed unchanged through the wall of the bowel and into the blood stream." Skin tests to find annoying foods give "erratic results," are a waste of money...
...changed color, to a bright blue. Over it, one after another, rolled glorious floats and glittering equipages of white and gold, bearing hundreds of characters from Mother Goose. Wheeling and cavorting came Old King Cole, in canopied splendor suspended between four elephants; ranks of pretty maids with cockleshells; a cow that literally leaped over the moon...
...Cripple Creek field (said to be named for a stream in which a cow once acquired a limp by getting stuck in the mud) is 36 square miles of volcanic rock on the southwestern slope of Pikes Peak. There, half-century ago, men's fortunes boiled as furiously as had the prehistoric lava which formed the plateau. A cowhand named Bob Womack, after digging so many holes that he endangered the lives of his employers' cattle, made the first strike in 1891, went on a spree, and discovered next morning that he had sold his claim...
...struggle was on again. The Washington Post said that the decision would "perpetuate the enormous powers" of labor racketeers. Unless Congress legislated directly, it looked as if the Court had passed a miracle: that onetime underdog Labor would be transmogrified into a sacred cow...