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...Martha Berry, a Georgia schoolmarm, once asked Ford for a $1,000,000 donation to her country school, was listened to politely but received only a Ford dime. Undaunted, she used the dime to start a peanut crop, solemnly sent Ford detailed annual accountings of each year's harvest, eventually bought a piano with the profits of the 100 worth of seeds. Ford was impressed, eventually visited the Berry School, square-danced to the piano, finally came across with more than the $1,000,000 Miss Berry originally asked...
Using penicillin dissolved in water, treatment was gradually worked down to three hypodermic injections two hours apart. Then came the discovery, announced last year (TIME, Sept. 11), that penicillin mixed with beeswax and peanut oil is disseminated slowly through the body, keeping the penicillin content of blood high for hours. The Public Health Service acted swiftly. To 137 doctors throughout the land went instructions and the penicillin mixture with the request that they try single injections of 200,000 units (2 cc.) on as many patients as possible and report the results. Back came results on 1,060 cases: over...
...rate, the way things are now the peanut-galleryites will have the breaks, if they keep Queen Bess and the Globe Theatre in mind, and the people in the orchestra will be peasants, even if they won't have to stand...
...Cabinet, because of McKellar's position as Senate president pro tern. It was commended in some quarters as a further presidential gesture of friendliness to Congress. But others saw it differently. Cried the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "A hack sits in the Cabinet . . . Senator McKellar is a vindictive peanut politician ... a grudge-bearing politician with an incurable itch for spoils. . . . President Truman is too big and busy a man to have to waste his time listening to this shoddy impresario of the patronage grab...
...dusk fell over the little one-street town of Pleasanton (pop. 2,073), 5° plain Texans gathered in the white frame First Baptist Church. Many of the men-ranchers, merchants, peanut farmers, railroad workers-were in shirt sleeves. Their women wore wash dresses. They had come to pray for the success of the San Francisco conference...