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When spring wheat fell below 75? a bu. last fortnight, tall, oratorical Governor William Langer of ever-radical North Dakota, taking advantage of a law passed by the last Legislature empowering him to curtail "an unwarranted drain upon the natural resources of the State," ordered an embargo on North Dakota wheat. Last week this embargo took effect. First effect was upon big wheat-carrying railways running through the State. The Soo, Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul let out a concerted yelp of dismay...
...reply to Labor by another $10,095,068 allocation. Most of it went in the form of 30% grants, 70% loans at 4% interest. San Francisco was to have a low-rent housing development; Princeton, N. J. an incinerator; Fort Steilacoom, Wash, a hospital; Buffalo, N. Y. a storm drain. Other projects included airport developments, schools, bakeries, libraries, waterworks, power plants...
There seems to be a well-established conviction that college Freshmen have a regrettable lack of familiarity with the Facts of Life. Hence the compulsory course in sex-hygiene, which in its present vague character amounts to little more than a useless drain of a first-year man's time. The lectures give a mere smattering of elementary physiology and deep-breathing; and only a few of them are actually concerned with sex hygiene...
...wife. Miss Bishop's mother went crazy, rocked back & forth in her room for nine years. The professor's unwanted wife died; on his way to Miss Bishop he was killed in an accident. Miss Bishop's salary was cut; her savings went down the drain when her bank failed. But when cheering alumni gave her a testimonial dinner all Miss Bishop's unshed tears became a rosary...
Almost all that physicians could do for St. Louis sufferers was to isolate them, see that they got careful nursing, warn their relatives not to confuse the disease with infantile paralysis or waste time and money on "cures." Lumbar punctures (to drain spinal fluid), obligatory for the first few days, gave the only relief. Various symptoms must be treated individually as they arise. Some drugs-sodium salicylate, atropine, pheno-barbital-have been helpful in scattered cases in the past...