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...lungs. The newest hope is eight-year-old PAS (for para-amino-salicylic acid). A highly optimistic report of its use by two Swedish doctors appeared in the Swedish medical journal Laekartidningen. Drs. Bo Carstensen and Stig Sjoelin reported trying PAS on 22 men & women whose chances were "hopeless or dubious" by ordinary methods of treatment. After two to four weeks' treatment (five to 14 grams of PAS a day) all 22 were "completely or almost completely" cured of abdominal symptoms. Pain disappeared completely. The general condition of 19 improved; two became worse. One died, but even...
...chicanery. For the moment, at least, Harry Truman had destroyed the notion that the Republican Party would win almost by default. Like an aggressive general, he had seized the offensive at a time and place of his own choosing. If anyone had thought that the President would fight a hopeless delaying action against the Dewey panzers, it was now plain as a tank track that Harry Truman meant to go down fighting...
Time was running out. Agreement on a housing bill seemed hopeless. Michigan's Jesse Wolcott got the House Rules Committee to kill a bill carrying what he called the "socialistic" provisions of the Senate's Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill for slum clearance and 500,000 low-cost housing units. The Senate balked at his own housing bill which he rammed through the House under a gag rule. It extended tax privileges to private builders, guaranteed their profits and mortgages. Cried New Hampshire's Charles Tobey: "A monstrosity . . . The veterans have been flim-flammed...
...grimmest Russian pressure is not directly on the Allies, but on Berlin's people. One night this week, slim, dark Fritz Müller, 27, left Berlin for good. From scrap & rubble, he had built up a little clothing shop. Business was a hopeless tangle-he couldn't get thread or needles from the Western sectors, his delivery boys were detained for days at a time by Russian patrols. Last week, because he was "politically unreliable," Fritz's shop was confiscated. Oddly, it was confiscated by the same German official who ten years ago seized his furniture...
...forgiveness of those peoples. So long as large areas of those countries were Communist battlefields, there would be little chance of restoring trade. Japan might (for a while) continue to subsist on U.S. doles, a prostrate ward. But its long-range prospects as a free nation would be hopeless...