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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Mary Felecia ran out on a busy intersection, embraced Patrolman John Rom, cried, "I love you," embarrassed Patrolman Rom, tied up traffic. Said she at the police station: "When I see a man in uniform I just get the yen to hug and kiss...
...lymph glands; and the deadly pneumonic plague, which may be transmitted by bites from infected animals, or the breath of infected humans. Pneumonic plague usually enters through a bite in the arm, travels rapidly to the lungs and spleen. The patient has a high fever, coughs constantly, cannot get his breath. Usually in three or four days he is dead. There is no specific treatment for plague patients. Antiplague serum, made from immunized horse blood, has not so far proved of great value...
...campaign was billed as the first really cooperative venture in cinema history. Executive Chairman George J. Schaefer (United Artists) explained it as the same kind of campaign that gets people to eat more bread. Outside the industry it was conceded that if his salaryless committees made enough racket they might get enough new customers to pay their expenses. But no amount of racket would call off the Department of Justice's impending suit...
...Flushing, L. I. white children, left while their mothers shop, get a chance to paint murals. Of the total attendance at community centres, more than half is composed of children and adults who actively participate in workshops and classes in local crafts such as Spanish-colonial woodcarving and embroidery in New Mexico. The Project has sent the centres 226 traveling exhibitions...
...Secretary Wallace signed a Federal-State milk marketing agreement which 39,000 dairymen had approved 6-to-1. Thus the world's largest milk market (6,500,000 qt. a day), New York, became the 22nd district to get such a plan. Marketing Specialist Erskine Harmon was appointed Federal administrator to police the New York industry and maintain the established minimum price paid to farmers (base: $2.45 a cwt.). In drafting the New York program, designed to settle the longtime controversy between farmers and milk distributors in New York City's milk-shed, everyone but distributors (Borden, Sheffield...