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...classmates and everyone else in Germany know a word nastier than a possible question by a New York reporter. The word is Sippenhaft, and it means, roughly, "family liability." It was widely used in Hitler's day when men, women & children were punished because they had anti-Nazi relatives...
...Free translation: the snails that are host to the parasite causing swimmer's itch and even nastier diseases probably won't be found in the Han. But if you want to gamble on a dose of lung flukes, the Han is pretty sure to have them...
...suffering from pneumonia in one lung-feeling bad enough -would rather escape pneumonia in the other lung-which he certainly will not do by kicking around and utterly disorganizing himself -destroying any body unity he could build up. A wise patient will swallow the nasty medicine-will ask for nastier medicine-in a chance to spare the other lung...
...Nastier burns were suffered by underwriters of two issues in the U. S.'s most up-&-coming industry-aviation. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's Eastern Air Lines came to the market May 27 via Smith, Barney & Co. (which is still licking the wounds left by the ill-fated Pure Oil issue in the 1937 bear market). In April Eastern had gone up above 44 on the big pre-panic move in airline stocks, early in May was still there. The new issue offered 110,909 shares to stockholders at $32 when it was around 39 on the market. Last...
...Senate-passed the bill (when Majority Leader Alben Barkley dozed), later reneged (when he awoke). This year it has an even-Stephen chance. President Roosevelt has indicated that he is against it. Should he come to think the Republicans can win the 1940 election, he could do them no nastier trick than to sign Mr. Walter's bill...