Word: nones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outstanding needs include: anti-tank guns (none on hand; 228 on order); antiaircraft guns (a piddling 24 in service east of the Rocky Mountains; 338 ordered); semiautomatic, 30-round-per-minute rifles (8,000 in service; Army arsenals can produce 5,000 a year); gas masks (100,000 in service, 300,000 needed for the first-line fighters); heavy artillery (only four of the Army's new 155-millimeter field guns are in service); aircraft bombs (the War Department won't release the figures for fear of encouraging potential enemies...
Some of Phil La Follette's last acts in office were regarded as none too glorious for a high-minded Progressive. The attempted draining of the State Treasury was one. Another was the pardoning of Thomas M. Duncan, part owner of the Milwaukee Leader and long Phil La Follette's executive secretary and financial adviser. One night last March, Duncan, who had been drinking, careened through the outskirts of Milwaukee in his automobile, smashed into three other cars successively, killed a man, never stopped until overtaken by police. Because of Duncan's respected past, a lenient judge...
...from the East, the Middle West and the Southwest, settling like flocks of gulls on Florida's sands. By the meet's end most of the stragglers had joined the first 325. Of the rest, forced down en route by weather, low fuel or motor trouble, none suffered serious mishap...
...tiny opening in the air-sac end of the egg. After he withdrew the needle, he sealed the hole with paraffin. In three or four days he removed the infected yolks, dried and ground them, diluted them in salt water, produced a remarkably virulent suspension of Rickettsiae, which lost none of its power when passed through ten series of eggs. "The technique," said Bacteriologist Cox, "is very simple, and permits a minimum of contamination." The simplicity of this operation should permit him to make thousands of doses of typhus vaccine in the time it takes Poland's Weigl...
...None of them, however, affords certain relief, and the cause & cure of seasickness remain one of medicine's minor mysteries...