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...Congress fails to pass a budget, one-twelfth of the previous year's budget is automatically appropriated each month...
Last week, as a representative of the press, Bascom Timmons turned up at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He was also a delegate from Texas, with one-twelfth vote of his own, absent John Nance Garner's proxy. One afternoon a group of fellow newsmen, bored with the New Deal's lumbering steam roller, hired an open car of ancient vintage, trimmed with brass, equipped with a raucous foghorn, and toured the hotel district bearing placards: "Timmons for Vice President...
Suggested for adults: 18 ounces (about one loaf) of whole wheat a day, for carbo-lydrates; two-fifths of an ounce of salt, tor maintaining the water balance in body tissues; the same quantity of brewers' yeast, for vitamin B; one-twelfth of an ounce of cod-liver oil, for vitamin A; half a lemon twice weekly, for vitamin C. If two ounces of dried skim-milk powder are available, brewers' yeast can be omitted. Other corrections: growing children need more cod-liver oil and skim-milk powder than adults, but less salt. If lemons or oranges...
...telescope fish's gall bladder is a greenish globule one-twelfth of an inch in diameter (visible as a disk about the size of the fish's eye but not so dark-see cut}. Dr. Viehoever found that soon after he injected the most trifling amount of the hormones secretin and cholecystokinin into the fish's tail, the gall bladder contracted, and squeezed its green bile into the intestines. This is what human gall bladders normally do during digestion, what they cannot do when obstructed by gallstones or mucus plugs...
...chop, two vegetables and a piece of pie to a child with a temperature of 104.5°; 2) a nurse who gave baths, accompanied by vigorous twisting and mauling, to a man with a fractured skull; 3) a nurse who thought that three one-quarter grain tablets of morphine made up a prescribed dose of one-twelfth grain...