Word: pours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year commercial broadcasting business, conducted mainly from Luxembourg and Normandy for British audiences, who get no commercials from their BBC. Big day for Radio Luxembourg, Radio Normandie and other "outlaw" stations has been Sunday, when the prim BBC goes completely Sabbath. On Sundays, the "outlaws" used to pour forth musical and variety programs acted and recorded in London and air-expressed to the foreign transmitters, briskly dinning Britishers with radio commodities like Alka-Seltzer, Lux, Pepsodent, Kraft Cheese. For a Sunday hour, Luxembourg had recently been charging $2,500, the highest single-station rate in the world...
...World War I, copper was up to 10, crude rubber up 2.28 to 18.9, highest since 1937. Next day, permissible limits were hit again. In two days untabulated millions of bushels of wheat changed hands. Brokers saw in World War II a drain down which the U. S. could pour its back-breaking crop surpluses at a handsome profit (except for cotton, no war commodity...
Last week in Modern Medicine, Dr. Bayard Taylor Horton and associates* of the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn* announced a new method of treating the "constant, excruciating, burning, boring" headaches of chronic alcoholics. When the system is flooded with alcohol, large amounts of histamine, a protein derivative, pour into the blood stream. Somehow, said the doctors, the histamine expands blood vessels in the head, causes hangover headaches. Strangely enough, they found that "immunizing" injections of minute quantities of histamine brought permanent relief to 65 patients, no improvement to ten patients...
...labor and capital which war induces neutrals to pour into industrial plants is not wasted-World War I made the U. S. the world's greatest industrial nation. When war ends the markets for war-built industries collapse and those who have built them may lose their investment. But the plants so built are not lost. New markets are eventually found for basic industrial products and the greater part of such industries remain as assets to society, producing real wealth...
...viewed it with admiration no less for its artistic beauties than because it showed: "Columbia sitting aloft on a Barge of State, heralded by Fame at the prow, oared by the Arts and Industries, guided by Time at the helm, and drawn by seahorses of Commerce. . . . Horns of Plenty pour their abundance over the gunwales. . . . In the basin of the fountain four pair of seahorses, mounted by riders who represent Modern Intelligence, draw the barge, while babes and mermaids disport themselves in the surrounding spray...