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...midnight train from Rosario rolled into Buenos Aires, U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden wondered what kind of reception he would get at the station. In his pocket were reports of the Government-inspired, anti-U.S. campaign which had pictured him as a "Yankee pig," a tough U.S. cowboy trying to run Argentina. In a Buenos Aires theater, a nationalist audience had screamed: "Death to Braden...
Catch. In Sheffield, Ohio, a marine went fishing, caught a live pig. In the Mississippi, near New Orleans, the S.S. Amherst Victory weighed anchor, hauled up a four-ton, two-horned manta a four-ton, two-horned manta (devil fish...
...Mental Hospitals. The guinea-pig experiments represent only a small part of the overall program of Civilian Public Service camps and special service units. Over 4,000 men from C.P.S. are engaged in other special projects, the most effective of which is work with inmates of public mental hospitals. C.O.s not in special service are assigned to regular C.P.S. camps, where they dig ponds, build roads and trails...
Reinhard Heydrich: "A great pig...
...Tested on tuberculous guinea pigs at Stanford University, streptomycin kept infection down to 5.8% of a theoretically possible 100% infection. (The amount of t.b. a guinea pig has is determined by autopsy.) Other guinea pigs, given tuberculosis bacilli but no streptomycin, developed 67% infection. Trials on a few human patients have just begun...