Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horror of the Squalus' loss of the men in her flooded aft was mitigated by the rescue of the 33 survivors. There was no grain of satisfaction for the British public in the Thetis disaster, worst in submarine history. There were just two cold epitaphs. "Chlorine gas fumes," said a British medical authority, "in a confined space like the interior of a submerged submarine, would cause early asphyxiation, immediately preceded by loss of consciousness." And over the spot in the Irish Sea where the submarine rested, there floated a new green buoy on whose side was freshly painted...
Into the respectable wholesale drug house of John Wyeth & Bro., Inc. stumbled Fred Barrick last month. Waving an official Government order blank signed by Dr. Anders, he demanded 500 half-grain tablets of morphine sulphate, enough to choke a team of horses. Since Government order blanks are for the personal use of physicians who purchase narcotics wholesale for office use, the druggists promptly called the narcotic squad...
Barrick was clapped into prison, where he threw two "whizbangs" (fake convulsions), demanded ten grains of morphine. (Average pain-killing dose: between 1/6 and ¼ grain.) Strangely enough, after several dopeless days, he did not become violent or sick, as most addicts do, but calmed down, gained weight...
Last week, Dr. Anders was indicted for illegally "selling" Barrick some 10,000 half-grain morphine tablets in the past two years. No man to preserve a "damned deferential silence," he made a public case out of his indictment, spoke his mind to Philadelphia reporters. Said...
...available soil, even including the Bohemian and what could be seized in Poland, Hungary and Rumania, is not sufficient to produce both fodder crops for the cattle and breadstuffs, sugar beets, potatoes, vegetables, flax and hemp for the 152,300,000 population of a Middle European empire. Intensive grain cultivation operations are now being set up in East Prussia, but most of the acres available for agricultural production are even now under intensive cultivation...