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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From October, 1926, when the Neosho River overran its banks in Kansas and Oklahoma to last week when the Mississippi attacked levees in southern Louisiana, flood conditions have prevailed in the Mississippi Valley. Since the middle of April the Mississippi has been on the greatest flood of its history. Last week best estimates of the situation gave the following summary...
...blight the harvest, Fascist editors hinted broadly last week that the tender sproutlings of Il Duce will potently mature until the Ministry of National Economy will delight to honor him with a prize awarded each year to the husbandman whose average yield of wheat per ara* shows the greatest percentage of increase over that of his neighbors...
...that I can say is that we will have a navy if you, in civil life, do some acting. Then we'll get along mighty fine. Mr. Mayor, I did not expect to have to make a speech. We are here with the greatest of pleasure after two years and I hope that my officers and men all enjoy the hospitality of this city as much as I have. Your hospitality is well known. The men are from all parts of the country. They have been working very hard for the last three months and I believe they enjoyed...
...reason for its good effects was that the liver, in particular, contained, besides iron, vitamin E. Dr. Koessler made certain of both the iron and the vitamin E in the foods he gave 30 of his anemic patients. All improved; none had relapses in two years. "The foods of greatest value in this new treatment," he reported "are butter, milk, cream, egg yolks, tomatoes, spinach, lettuce, oranges, grapefruit and pineapples. Of meats the edible viscera, which are commonly eaten only rarely, are of the greatest value; liver, lungs, sweetbreads, kidneys, beef heart and brain...
...determines a popular song, he said. "Ten years ago a song hit was determined by a sale of 100,000,000 copies. Today a piece of popular music is considered a hit if 100,000 copies are sold. This change in conditions is caused by several reasons. Perhaps the greatest factor in the change is the Radio. Since its invention and its broadcasting of music, songs become known by the public much sooner than they used to be when the victrola was the most rapid means of conveying it from ear to ear. Today a piece of music is literally...