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They frightened children and ruined business. Borough President James J. Lyons made an official investigation, discovered the cause ("We've been having nice weather for cockroaches") and promised a cure (gallons of insecticide to be poured into the sewer openings...
...prewar Russia it was not healthy to be seen talking to foreigners. The doctors of the Cheka-prescribed a Siberian rest cure for comrades who mingled too freely. With Siberia in mind, Moscow maidens are standoffish...
Cause without Cure. At the bottom of this bitter dogfight were three basic factors: 1) Jesse Jones's great urge to hold on to his vast powers, 2) the never-settled, equivocal division of authority between Jones and Wallace, 3) the inevitable conflict over business method between banker-minded Jesse Jones and war-worried Henry Wallace...
...long run, therefore, subsidies aggravate rather than cure inflation. The preventive of inflation is enormously higher taxes, a fact which the Secretary of the Treasury seems not to understand...
Repeal put Childs back into the money - but not before Founder William had almost ruined it. Distraught by his brother Samuel's death (in 1925) and by financial troubles, William took the cure at Battle Creek, Mich. There Dr. John Harvey Kellogg sold him on 1) a vegetarian diet, 2) the evils of drinking water at mealtime, 3) the evils of tobacco at any time. William tried to sell Childs customers on a similar Spartan bill of fare. General sales resistance finally roused hungry Childs stockholders to push him out of the company in 1929. Nine years later...