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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instead of dying, "showed marked improvement . . . within 24 hours," and in a few days the sulfapyridine conquered flu germs as well as pneumococci. Happy Dr. McLeod passed the glad news on to the U. S. Public Health Service, and Bacteriologist Margaret Pittman set to work in her laboratory to make sure his lucky hit was indeed...
Bishop Manning's last point was demonstrably true. Last fortnight the ''Protestant-minded" Churchman suggested that attacks upon the Concordat may be motivated by a wish to wreck "a pact which would make more difficult the Romanization of the Anglican communion." The "Catholic-minded" Living Church has been critical ever since, last summer, it heard that grape juice had been used at communion at a unity conference in Berkeley, Calif.-in the diocese of liberal Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, chairman of the Concordat commission...
Nothing is quite so good for military technology as war. At the start of World War I, airplanes and poison gas cut no figure as military weapons; tanks were unheard of. All three proceeded to make big names for themselves. Since the Armistice, military theorists have speculated much about weapons that might be developed in the "war of the future." Now that the "war of the future" has started, speculation is hotter than ever. One device closely watched by advance scouts is the rocket-not small signal rockets, but big rockets carrying high explosives...
...songwriter cannot make as much money out of a war as a munitions manufacturer. But if he hits the jackpot, he can do pretty well. (Songwriter George M. Cohan's Over There sold 2,000,000 copies during World War I.) Soldiers are choosy about their songs. By last week British tunesmiths had turned out a tremendous stack of war songs, were waiting to see which ones would click. Most of these musical munitions were rousing, morale-boosting ditties (The Handsome Territorial, The Girl Who Loves a Soldier, We Must All Stick Together, Here We Go Again...
Thirty-year-old, baby-eyed Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) is head of the Boy Rangers, and a simpletonian Democrat. His fuzzy ideas make Governor Hopper (foxy-grandpopsical Guy Kibbee) and Political Boss Taylor (Edward Arnold) think Jeff the ideal Senator to cover up their graft...