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...withholding of goods . . . needed for defense of the nation . . . is to be deplored. . . . Scant attention, however, has been paid to the dairy farmers' repeated pleas for emergency relief. The drought has cut the hay crop in half, and the recent rains . . . have spoiled much [of what remains]. Labor has been drained from the farm to the manufacturing industries. ... Dairy feeds ... are constantly rising. . . ."In short, like many a manufacturer of consumers' goods, dairymen had found their costs rising until they felt they had to raise prices or go out of business...
...Marshal William Sholto Douglas, chief of the Fighter Command, who invented the sweeps, was not kidding himself about them. He knew that much of the Luftwaffe's best had been withdrawn to tackle the Reds. But meanwhile there was hay to be got in, and he was losing no time getting...
...crowded courtroom, Major Sir Henry John Delves ("Sir Jock") Broughton was awaiting the verdict of a jury of his peers. For a full month he had seen the Crown Counsel, witness by witness, put together a damning picture of the murder of his friend, Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll (TIME, March...
...Standard hay-fever treatment is complicated, long-drawn-out, expensive and-in almost half the cases-no good. First a patient must be given a score of scratch tests on his arm to find out what pollens or other proteins poison him. Then for several months he must take a course of "desensitizing" injections to accustom him to growing doses of those irritants. Sometimes the injections give patients all the uncomfortable symptoms of asthma...
...Elsbach's treatment short-cuts all this. He uses a specially prepared salt solution of organic substances produced by the ordinary Bacillus coli, found in human intestines. No scratch tests are necessary, for the Coli Metabolin acts on all forms of hay fever. Somehow the compound has a tonic effect on the irritated sympathetic nervous system. Treatment consists of eight to twelve injections; the first five injections are given daily, the rest every other day. Said Dr. Elsbach: "Treatment before the onset of hay fever is not necessary but should be started when the first symptoms appear. A marked...