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...speech this week at New Haven, U.S. Steel's Board Chairman Irving S. Olds dismissed price-wage increases as a major cause of inflation. The real root of the disease, he said, was expansion of bank credit, and the cure was in deflating it. His point had merit, but his attitude, like almost every businessman's, was that the other fellow ought to have more self-control...
...wrinkle in peace proposals hit the headlines, got bandied around by an amused California press, and had a quick demise last week, when Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, put forward scientific birth control as a sure cure...
Maladjusted. In Manhattan, the Ellin Prince Speyer Hospital for Animals informed the press that it had successfully treated a cat suffering from an eggnog hangover, might yet cure another that refused to eat until it had heard the scale played on a harmonica...
...time or another, has been enthusiastically recommended as a remedy for colds in the head and worms in the intestines. For centuries, the onion's medicinal value has been praised by witch doctors, old wives and bartenders. Rome's Pliny the Elder listed the onion as a cure for 28 diseases. Early New England settlers believed that the onion would prevent fits; Neapolitans of the Middle Ages thought it averted the evil eye. A 16th Century French surgeon, Ambroise Parè, used it instead of ointment to heal powder burns...
...Housing Office is continuing a high rent on converted singles even though both prewar advantages have been swept away. It further believes that by adding $40 to the prewar rent for each new man and dividing by the total number of men, it has a sure-cure for injustice in the doubling process. Examination indicates both assumptions to be wrong...