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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that those original sources of infection get cured. That procedure requires public laboratories where blood tests can be made and pus smears examined. Because great numbers of infected individuals lack enough intelligence or money to get examined, and then treated, health officers wish to make laboratory examinations and treatment free...
Last week Iowa began to provide free laboratory service to physicians," leaving only Kentucky, Nevada, Texas and Wyoming on the "black list...
...City Hall cafeteria, the Power Bureau's general manager, Ezra Frederick Scattergood, had handed President Addison Blanchard Day of Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp. a check for $46,340,000. Private Powerman Day had handed Public Powerman Scattergood a deed to all his company's electric properties free & clear of debt. Los Angeles now had the largest municipally-owned power system in the world...
When Tsar Alexander I founded his Lyceum at Tsarskoe Selo to train gentlemen's sons for the government service, 12-year-old Pushkin was sent there because it was free, spent six precocious years annoying his masters, writing light and scurrilous verse, getting into scrapes. He paid little attention to study. Once, when called on to solve an algebra equation, Pushkin guessed the answer was zero. Bellowed the master: "Fine! In my class, Pushkin, everything ends in zero with you. Take your seat and write verses." He graduated from the Lyceum without honors but with a rising reputation...
...good friends, all of whom seemed to have subversive Pushkin poems among their papers. Though not directly implicated in the conspiracy, Pushkin was again under suspicion. He was allowed to lay his case before the Tsar. After an hour-long interview Pushkin emerged, seething with loyalty. He was free to go anywhere in Russia, except St. Petersburg...