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San Francisco still remembers Juan Miguel Aguirre. In the raw mining town of 1848 he was the first to sell water to citizens who lacked a nearby spring or well. He barreled his water in Sausalito, barged it across the Golden Gate, packed it on burros to peddle through muddy...
President Roosevelt has learned that it is one thing to desire credit inflation and another to achieve it. For more than a year Jesse Jones shook a horrendous finger at the banks, accusing them of damming enormous reservoirs of potential credit. The bankers weakly replied that not even on the...
The double walls of Jericho fell as related, probably as the result of an earthquake which may also have caused the damming of the River Jordan described in Psalm 114: The sea saw it and fled: Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like...
In Great Britain a musquash pelt is worth only about a shilling. Britons can get their furs more cheaply from the Continent. The British muskrat-fur industry, started after the War to employ ex-servicemen, has so languished that the animals have been turned loose upon the countryside. Though vegetarians...
Germs may get to the heart by way of the blood, affect the valves and keep them from closing tightly. Then there is a "leaky" heart. The walls of veins may become weak; then varicose veins. The arteries may become stiff and unyielding to the pulsating blood; this hardening of...