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...Senator was "the biggest hog on Capitol Hill," another "a total loss-without insurance," another a "smart aleck." Libeled Senators breathed fire, whetted their knives for Neely's appointee...
...High-pressure hog Bernie Kamber now spread his unwanted presence across the supper table, and kept looking up between mouthfulls for any 'stunt' which might publicise his beautiful guinea pig," and observer said. His chance came when CRIMSON editors appeared between say, Ritz diners bearing a moulting canary bird, incarnate soul of the sacred lbis. Many eye witnesses claim that at this point, Kamber seized the helpless bird, wrung its neck, put it on a large china plate and made Marjorie eat it as Boston photographers clicked their flash bulbs madly...
...since before the Civil War has the U.S. been such a factor on the world's ocean trade routes. Thanks to Hog Island's mass production of freighters, the U.S. hoped to become a seafaring nation after World War I, but lost standing quickly in the 1920s to nations whose young men took to sea as naturally as young Americans took to automobiles: England, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands. Despite subsidies totaling $3,500,000,000 in the last quarter century, U.S. ship lines-with wages and operating costs higher than their foreign competitors-rarely made money...
...overactive stomach, which constantly gushes acid, erodes its own walls. For years Dr. Ivy has tried to curb this acid formation. To the members of the American Physiological Society meeting in Chicago last week he described a hormone which seems to turn the trick: enterogastrone, extracted from hog intestines...
With a production boom reminiscent of World War I's Hog Island days (TIME, March 31), shipbuilding has looked like a ure bet for strikes. Even without strikes the industry has had enough trouble...