Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brothers Schechter operate the two largest jobbing plants in the $60,000,000-a-year Brooklyn live poultry business. They stoutly refused to let the Blue Eagle roost among their chickens, so the Government indicted them on 19 counts. Two trial courts found the Schechters guilty of violating the fair trade provisions of the poultry code: selling diseased fowl; filing false sales volume and price scale reports; permitting butchers to select the chickens they wanted killed, in spite of the code's insistence on "straight killing." But neither lower court found the Schechters outside the law because they worked...
...live by the light of Marx...
Last week Dr. Robinson announced that his hunch was correct, that pledgets of pure allantoin (C 4 H 6 O 3 N 4 ) may be poked into a wound to promote healing, that rarely hereafter need anyone endure the squirming of maggots in his live flesh...
Death Prognosticor. Dr. Felix Bernstein, a German refugee in Manhattan, developed a machine which measures the elasticity of the crystalline lens of the eye. According to the elasticity of a person's lens, Dr. Bernstein can tell whether that person will live (barring infections, disease and accidents) until ripe old age, or will drop dead from heart failure or apoplexy around...
...coarse food which contains large amounts of minerals are strong and healthy. "The natives of the South Sea Islands are a hardy, upright race. Their women of 85 are as vigorous as American women of 50. They have but few wrinkles on their faces, they retain their teeth and live strenuous lives. Their principal food is fish, which is rich in mineral content, the building material for the body. Expectant mothers eat raw fish...