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...City hospitals plan to treat early cases of syphilis with the five-day arsenic drip method (TIME, April 22, 1940). Since it seems that heavy doses of arsenic compound drain the body's supply of vitamin C, Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. has agreed to provide extra fruits and vegetables in an attempt to bolster up a number of reliefers with venereal infections...
...explain the South's dire straits, FPC had already turned to an old Government scapegoat, Aluminum Co. of America (Carolina Aluminum's parent). Alcoa, said FPC, had too long relied on cheap seasonal dump power. Smart management in peace, this practice now meant that Alcoa had to drain 150,000 kw. from other customers to keep producing through what used to be its slack season...
Case for the Crown is that on the night of the murder, the earl brought Lady Broughton home after Sir Jock had retired, that Sir Jock later climbed out of his bedroom by a balcony or drain pipe, met the earl, killed...
...Kellogg, Iowa, the Midwest Metal Stamping Co. makes One Minute Washers. Said one of its officers last week: "Today you lose the agitator, tomorrow the drain spout, the next day the wringer heads." His washing-machine production this year will be 6,000, half of last year's; next year he expects it will probably be nothing. Of the rest of his business-stampings for light sockets, etc.-½ of 1% is now for defense. He thinks that could be increased. Meanwhile, he has laid off 100 of his 300 employes...
...million-ton horizontal expansion would not only cost $1,250,000,000 but would take at least two years and 4,160,000 tons of additional steel (including coal and iron mine development, hauling equipment, etc., as well as furnaces and rolling & finishing equipment). But the real drain, he said, would be on the labor supply...