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...take the place of bonds, notes, bank loans. The plan is the result of almost a year's study by Edward Dailey Levy, president of the new company, whose experience has ranged from western railroading to the Emergency Fleet Corp. and on to Paraguay where he rejuvenated a decrepit tanning extract business...
...Cure. From a friend he heard about a decrepit little summer resort at Warm Springs, Ga. One young paralytic had braved its mosquito-plagued country hotel, bathed in its warm mineral waters and partially regained the use of his legs. Mr. Roosevelt went there first in 1924. After churning about in the pool, he found that his leg muscles felt a little stronger. Thereafter Warm Springs became his great hobby. He spent a large part of his personal fortune on developing the place into a sanatorium. Edsel Ford gave an enclosed pool, others contributed to make Warm Springs a permanent...
...that as soon as one begins to live, he begins to kill himself. All living cells give off waste products which, unless removed, clog continued growth. The older a person is. the greater the clogging. If it were possible to replace all of a person's old and decrepit cells by young ones, and if it were possible to cleanse every drop of blood, lymph and other liquid in his body, then he would be rejuvenated. How to accomplish all that has, said Dr. Carrel last week, "still to be discovered. . . . No senescent organism has ever been rejuvenated...
...grew decrepit and my teeth fell...
...story jumps back to 1700, shows the original Orrange Oakes building the house, living in it in ancestral splendor. Then you skip to 1890. Judith Oakes, last of her clan, is an embittered spinster, mistress of a decrepit estate. The old settlers are vanishing, the Poles are coming in. When Judith discovers that her niece has married the Polack hired man she dies of a stroke. When Death comes for his parents, Orrange Olszak struggles on with the farm. The story comes down to the present again. The Baldwins have arrived at just the right time : Orrange was beginning...