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...gone unnoticed at the nation's publishing houses. If these two threatened suppressions have been a test for a new revenue-raising scheme that might save Massachusetts yet from a higher income tax on the lottery, the test has succeeded. In the future, the Commission should be able to extract from myriad publishers and authors handsome fees for declaring their books obscene, indecent, and impure...
Five Brands. Even diagnosis is difficult, unless the doctor has reason to suspect botulism. "When we have a suspected case," said Dr. Charles S. Petty of the University of Maryland, "we must first get a specimen of the food, inject an extract of it into white mice, and wait up to four days for something to happen. By then, if the patient really had botulism, he may be dead...
...Escape. Every year, said Dr. Christensen, about 500,000 Americans get a shot of horse-serum antitoxin. Some 25,000 get a bad reaction, and about 20 die. Tetanus experts see an escape from such dangers-at a price. Two West Coast companies, Cutter Laboratories and Hyland Laboratories, are extracting tetanus antibody from human volunteers in the form of immune globulin. But the price of one shot of human serum extract ranges from $7.50 to $11.50, whereas the horse serum costs less than $2.00. And even where price is no problem, an overriding handicap remains: human globulin is likely always...
...horse meat - labeled beef goulash - and Ethiopian pork and beef. A meat company imported almost 3,000,000 lbs. of beef from South America by sending it first to Ireland and Australia, making false bills and shipping it on to Germany; the swindle was discovered when someone forgot to extract a bill of lading from a South American harbor...
...Women are meant to be childbearing, not fur-bearing"), once ticked off celebrated Vegetarian Bernard Shaw for "breaches of the vegetarian faith" because Shaw was taking liver-extract injections; of cancer; in Manhattan...