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...many of the European countries which lent us money a generation or two ago to build our railways, are now applying to Wall Street investment banking houses for loans to improve and extend their own railroad systems. One of the basic ideas in the Experts' Plan was to extract reparation payments from the German state-owned railways. As a preliminary step to this process, however, the German roads needed working capital to place them on a money-making basis. Altogether about $15,000,000 was needed. International conferences between London and Manhattan bankers ensued. Finally arragements were made...
...Charles II that football was first mentioned in connection with a university. It took such a hold on the student body of Cambridge that the faculty found it necessary to make it the subject of a decree. In the register of Magdalene College of Cambridge University the following extract appears under the date...
Such are the cretins. But how few, suggests Dr. Berman, are aware of the transformation that has been wrought upon these wretches by modern Science. By furnishing the hormones, or vital gland secretion, in pill form, manufactured from the thyroid extract of animals, the village idiot has been reclaimed in thousands of cases. He (or she) rides on the trolley and subway beside you. He works at the next desk, exercises at the next machine, pours tea at any table, walks, talks, transacts, marries, yet is never detected unless somehow cut off, Antaeus-like, from the source of vitality. Cretins...
...following is an extract from a 'document given to the press and published in many Republican papers...
...possible to remove and wash it, like linen. A remarkable device to accomplish this is being perfected by Dr. John J. Abel, distinguished pharmacologist of Johns Hopkins University. It is, in effect, an artificial kidney, an external laundry for the blood. The purpose of the apparatus is to extract foreign substances and mineral poisons from the circulation by tapping one of the large arteries, passing the blood through a purifier, and returning it to the heart by reinjection in a vein...