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...concerned with debating the relative merits of tear gas and guns, TIME reported accurately the American Medical Association's conclusion that "enough irritation . . . may be produced by tear gases to pave the way for secondary bacterial infection...
...parleying with President Roosevelt (TIME, June 14). Last week as the Premier busied himself in Brussels, shaping up material he has gathered for presentation to European leaders, the King's letter came, as it was obviously intended to come, as a dramatic stroke to arrest world opinion, help pave the way for action. Next day in London the Laborite Daily Herald enthusiastically told His Majesty he had written "a letter which may alter world history!" London's arch-Conservative Morning Post dryly said: "The very least that countries to which the appeal was directed can do is give...
...query from Dr. Robert N. Coats of Weiser, Idaho, who has a patient claiming sinus and ear trouble as the result of exposure to tear gas, the Journal pontificated: "It is reasonable to believe that enough irritation of the eyes or throat may be produced by tear gases to pave the way for secondary bacterial invasion, with ensuing pharyngitis and conjunctivitis on occasion. The possibility of the production of sinusitis and otitis media secondary to irritation by chloroacetophenone [commonest tear gas] is not at all fantastic. Chloroacetophenone is not the practically harmless substance it is commonly reputed...
...Steel expressed "a tremendous ambition" to see all common stockholders rewarded for their patience when he addressed the company's annual meeting last month, Wall Street financial circles last week half-expected Big Steel directors to dip into surplus enough to pay off preferred dividend arrearage, thus pave the way tor a resumption on common. Since the corporation earned $28,561,000 for the first quarter of 1937, it ,would have taken $11,000,000 more to clear up the $9.25 per share arrearage plus $1.75 per share current requirements on 3,602,811 shares. This the directors...
Perhaps the most fruitful comments that came out of the English Concentrators meeting for the Confidential Guide, aside from the general remarks about teachers who is the best and who the worst, and what are the courses that pave the smoothest way to a degree, were the observations made with regard to the two beginners' English Literature courses, English 1 and English 2. For although these two courses, both introductory to the field, lead into their material from entirely different approaches, they inevitably tend to cover the same subjects and with about the same degree of minuteness. It is felt...