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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since no one knows how the St. Louis (or other types of encephalitis) is contracted, no one knows how to prevent its spread. As the result of their 1933 experience St. Louis doctors generally feed (give injections of) concentrated glucose solution to sufferers. This is believed to reduce brain inflammation as well as build up a patient's strength. In four or five days the fever usually abates. The patient then is given blood from a survivor of the disease-by direct transfusion, by a hypodermic injection into the muscle of a buttock, or in the form of blood...
...Mayer). Mrs. Caroline Whipple (Binnie Barnes), wife of a confection tycoon, owns a horse named Star Gazer, beloved by Sally Lee (Eleanor Powell) whose father bred him. With the horse, Manhattan-bound in a stockcar, Horsetrainers Sonny (George Murphy) and Peter (Buddy Ebsen) find Sally tucked up in the feed. A Manhattan playwright, Steve Raleigh (Robert Taylor), whose show Caroline is backing, finances Sally's auction bid for Star Gazer, tries to cast her as his leading lady. Jealous, Caroline withdraws her backing. At this point only juvenile or feeble-minded members of the audience will fail to perceive...
...year. By applying to the District Court the debtor may protect himself from garnishee actions for a period of two years during which a referee designated by the court supervises paying off his bills in installments, sees to it that he is allowed enough of his earnings to feed and care for his dependents...
...manufacturers made 525,000,000 burlap bags, sold them for $45,000,000. Last year production was 438,000,000 bags, sales $35,000,000. It takes about 1⅓ yds. of burlap to make one average sack, and nothing is better or as cheap for sacking grain, flour, feed, potatoes, rice, nuts, wool, ore, coffee, spices, cottonseed meal. Largest U. S. sack company is Bemis Bro. of Boston. Oldest and second largest is Chase Bag Co. of New York...
...pets, ornaments and toys, chameleons are more popular in the U. S. than any other reptile. Like hot dogs or lollipops, they are peddled in great numbers by circuses, fairs and carnivals, mostly to people who have no idea how to feed and water them. This wholesale trade was last week giving some concern to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, because it has been found that chameleons help Florida celery growers by eating destructive caterpillars and moths, and the Department now believes that they help suppress insect pests on other truck crops in Southeastern and Gulf States...