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...spleen, lying just under the lowest left rib, is a kind of junkman of the blood stream. It collects worn-out blood cells, breaks them up and sends the debris to the liver. Marvin Goodman's spleen, ten times oversize, destroyed his red blood cells with mad indiscrimination. As a result, he became anemic. His skin turned yellow, then green. His weight fell from 150 lb. to 90 lb. in six months. He obviously was dying of hemolytic jaundice...
...where charges of embezzlement awaited Insull an additional bond of $50,000 was demanded. Six private citizens stepped forward with $100,000 in real estate to pledge for his appearance at trial. One was John R. Palandech, advertising and publicity representative of foreign language newspapers. Another was Abe Salitsky, junkman, who did not know Insull and had lost $50,000 in the collapse of the Insull companies. He put up a $60,000 apartment house. To his six benefactors Sam Insull made a little speech: "I want to thank you. This is encouraging. I appreciate it more because...
Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week, a scavenging junkman named Roderick Good turned in an alarm. In their beds in the five-story rookery lay more than 100 tenants. The fire, starting on the third floor, shot up the stair well, down the hallways and through the flimsy walls and doors as if they were paper. By the time the fire department arrived the whole interior was roaring like a blast furnace. Seven tenants were cooked alive. Week before in New York City six persons were incinerated in tenements. Week before that ten were burned...
...Victor Jory), Smoky is stolen and beaten by a cowhand he once threw. At length he stamps his captor to death, heads for the open range. Clint gives him up for lost, goes away to be a meatpacker. Captured, Smoky becomes successively a rodeo broncho, a riding horse, a junkman's nag. Just as he ambles into a slaughterhouse he is found again by Clint and shipped back to the range. After the rodeo scenes Smoky loses its legitimate interest as an equine biography. Best performance is that of the camera man, who worked part of the time...
...wish I had those fellows for my competitors. I'd like to take the auto- mobile it is said they predicted could be made now that would last for 50 years. Even if never used, this automobile would be worth nothing except to the junkman in ten years, because of changes in men's ideas and tastes." So much does Mr. Kettering believe in Change's force that he would have all bond issues limited to 20 years...