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...spends a good deal more of his money (again as "Somebody") turning a theatrical warehouse into a super-canteen where the Deyo girls, Harry James, Xavier Cugat, Lena Home, Gracie Allen and Jimmy Durante entertain soldiers, sailors and cinemaddicts. In the end, Jean falls in love with a Texas onion-rancher in sergeant's uniform, and the way is clear for the girl with the million-dollar conscience to embrace the million-dollar blue-jacket...
Pungent. In Manhattan. Magistrate Peter Abeles fined Harry Marrin $250, sent him to jail for five days - because "your transactions in the onion black market smell to high heaven...
Between 1928 and 1930, a Russian scientist named B. Tokin noticed that "a paste prepared from a small amount of macerated onion, garlic or other allied plant immediately emits volatile substances which are lethal to yeast cultures," frogs' eggs, protozoa (one-celled animals which live in water), etc. Two years ago Drs. Toroptsev and Filatova began grinding up fresh onions and garlic to see whether the smell would do any good to infected wounds of rabbits...
They then tried the vapor on eleven cases of infected amputation stumps. Freshly ground onion (potency is lost in about 15 minutes) was applied to the patient so that the onions did not touch the wound. The vapor was held in by layers of gauze. Healing was complete in a month or so, in all but one case...
...Cameron County, 3,500 acres of vegetables, in San Patricio County on the Gulf, more than 2,000 acres of spinach, 25% of the onion crop, were destroyed...