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...York in 1900 under a law providing for the organization of "fish & game" clubs, has long been proud of its unique status as a non-commercial news agency, sharing dispatches among its member newspapers. But World War II, with its intensive news coverage, has been a heavy drain on A. P. coffers, has forced its directors to dig down deep in their reserves to cover expenses...
...jobs were provided for many an unemployed soldier back from the Civil War digging 30 miles of trenches to drain a 345-acre tract of Chicago swampland, on which rose the Union Stock Yards. Last week the yards - now biggest in the world, centre of Chicago's only billion-dollar -a-year industry - observed their 78th anniversary. Over their scales 896 million ani mals have been sold...
Unless Germany should suddenly throw in some effective air power, Italy's payoff in Albania, now that snow was falling, looked at best like a stalemate for some months, a lasting disgrace and a drain on the entire Italian military establishment. If, operating from their new strongholds in Crete, British naval power could gain mastery of the Adriatic, past minefields and submarines, the entire Italian expedition, including last week's reinforcements, might be annihilated, or forced to execute a sorry withdrawal like the British from Norway...
...hundreds of years medicine men believed that arthritis was caused by watery "humors" which settled in the joints. The ancient Romans burned the flesh over the afflicted joints, kept the ulcers open to drain off the humors. Other doctors worked on the principle of "no movement, no pain." They carved stone foot casts, not unlike modern plaster casts, into which patients thrust their aching feet. Paul placed great faith in "dragon's blood," but of course, he remarked, it "is difficult to procure...
Mounting waters poured out of the bathroom door, down the hall, and into adjoining rooms, soaking rugs and floating low furniture. Before McNair could be persuaded to lift his feet from the choked drain, three rooms had been inundated...