Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Children suffering from spinal meningitis occasionally develop a temperature of 111º F. But not even children, whose normal temperatures are higher than temperatures of normal adults, can live very long with 111º F. fever, or even with 109.8° F. To save the life of a heat victim quick measures are essential. Dan Long got them-ice packs to remove the body heat which his deranged system could not radiate; oxygen for his thickened blood; cold salty water to replace the sweat he had lost. In a few hours record-breaking Dan Long's temperature read...
...worried because they would not hatch, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau has since last December been sitting on the Government's sterilized golden nest egg. Ever since then, the Government has been buying all the gold imported into the U. S. and storing it away to prevent the normal inflationary effect of such an influx. With recent imports of $5,000,000 a day and a sterile nest egg of $1,145,000,000, Mr. Morgenthau has been kept busy borrowing money to buy more of the wretched stuff...
...from their own pockets for bait bought from private dealers. In Colorado, an anti-grasshopper council was organized by the State agriculture extension director. In Arizona, a State entomologist predicted that the pests would this year consume much more than the 25% of range grass which they eat in normal years...
...turtles, which got along at the equivalent of 13,000 metres (about 43,000 ft.). Dogs and cats could not hang on long above 12,000 metres, carrier pigeons collapsed at 7,000. Newborn rats and mice, however, which were given no chance to get used to air of normal pressure, survived amazingly in air of .002 of sea level pressure, which corresponds to an altitude of 30 miles. Conclusion was that air pressure requirements are not innate but a matter of conditioning...
Close to 100 Leftist soldiers per hour surrendered to the Rightists last week as they pressed their methodical advance in North Spain from captured Bilbao toward Santander. This city's normal population is only 85,000 and last week 400,000 retreating Leftists and hostages jammed it almost beyond bearing, with food running crucially short. Daily Spanish civilians escaped on British merchant ships convoyed by British warships. In Leftist Spain the situation was recognized to be so desperate that Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin and his Foreign Minister Jose Girál Pereira piled into an airplane, flew...