Word: cures
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Legislative Hobbies: A resolution authorizing the Government to undertake extensive research in the cause and cure of cancer ("Millions are spent on hog diseases, why not a few on people?"); a bill to place Mexicans and other Latin Americans under the immigration quota, so that they can no longer freely enter...
Bernard Mannes Baruch, financier-philanthropist, chairman of the Saratoga Springs Commission of the State of New York, returned to the U. S. after inspecting medicinal springs in Germany, declared: "There were eleven men in the first cabin in the Berengaria who went to Germany to take the cure. They could have saved time and money by taking the waters of Saratoga and have received every bit as much benefit as they did abroad...
Marshal Joseph Jacques Cesare Joffre left Paris for Evian-les-Baines, health resort. To anxious friends he explained he was going not for himself but because his wife was taking a cure for rheumatism...
...Ford revealed that his second cousin, Detroit's manufacturer Henry Ford, had offered a home for the garbage of Detroit and vicinity. His plan: to reduce garbage to grease, fuel and fertilizers at the Ford plant. Turning garbage into grease may sound to inexperts like catching mumps to cure measles, but to the Detroit city fathers it means a saving of several million dollars. The city will collect the garbage, deliver it to the Ford reduction plant; all further costs will come out of the Ford pocket. A Ford-operated garbage-to-grease plant has effectively reduced London's garbage...
...cure the 46-year-old Tacna-Tacna pain in the left side of South America, statesmen of Chile and Peru met late one night last week in rustic, thatch-roofed Tacna City. At midnight they began to sign 138 peace-potent documents...