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...Housing Bill, 1937 edition, was modeled closely after a popular British slum-clearing act. It provided for $700,000,000 to be loaned by the Federal Government to a U. S. Housing Authority for pulling down noxious tenement houses and erecting low-rental dwellings in their stead. The Authority would then reimburse the Treasury by selling their own 60-year bonds (guaranteed by the U. S.) to the public. If income from the necessarily low rents fell short of paying off bonds & interest, the Government would chip in up to $20,000,000 a year-an outright subsidy...
Sprays of tannic acid (TIME, March 22) were used to coagulate the surfaces of their bodies and prevent evaporation of their vital juices. Pints of blood were pumped into their veins, and all the glucose solution they could stand. Oxygen too was necessary, for noxious gases generated by burning fabric and fuel oil had poisoned their lungs. Between Life & Death their chances were even...
...however, the first use in the War of noxious gas. In August 1914 the French began shooting rifle grenades containing the tear-gas ethylbromacetate and later used another lacrimator, chloracetone, in both rifle and hand grenades. First German gas used (January 1915) was the lacrimator zylyl bromide ("T-Stoff"). The casualty effect of these was negligible...
...noxious gases in the air St. Louis doctors blame the high incidence of nose and throat ailments in that city. On the smoky fog which shuts off health-promoting sunrays they blame other ills which St. Louis inhabitants suffer...
This is the first time that any experiments of this sort have been carried on, it is believed. Although the noxious quality of the gas has been known for some time, no one heretofore has knowingly subjected himself to its effects...