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...Provident. Founded in 1891 by a brilliant young Negro surgeon named Daniel Hale Williams, it was the first institution in the U.S. for training Negro nurses and interns. A number of white industrialists gave money for a frame house and 13 beds; local Negroes donated such necessities as 8 Ib. of prunes, 8 Ib. of feathers, a bottle of Holland gin, a washboard, a pair of crutches, four cakes of soap...
...Stoop over, have 3,660 Ib. attached to back, straighten...
...Back lift, 2,000 Ib. 250 times in seven minutes...
...Ergot, a fungus which grows in rye kernels, contains a score of medicinal factors. It is used mostly to start contractions of the uterus at childbirth. The fungus is difficult to separate from rye husks, is expensive to produce. Most of it came from Europe. About 20,000 Ib. were produced in the Middle West last year...
Though allowed to buy food, chubby Correspondent Allen lost 38 Ib. - for the first time in ten years his ribs showed faintly. He was also put through a farcical examination by an SS man from Paris, who accused him of being an agent of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. His diary was taken away on the last day. When he pointed out that it contained only the Nazi propaganda effusions, he was told gloomily that they considered it "too late" for propaganda...