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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would appreciate the opportunity to apologize to all these United States and their people for the present plight of Louisiana politics. Believe it or not, there are many here who object...
...true. The doctors proved it conclusively by exposing cut nerve ends of Rhesus monkeys to the virus of human polio. They then separated the slender neurotubules a little way up the nerve and examined them under the electron microscope. Some of them were full of tiny round specks not present in healthy nerves. By extracting the nerve samples at different times, the doctors proved that the particles crept slowly up the nerve from the point of entry. They moved about 2 mm. (1/12 inch) an hour-roughly the rate that polio infection is known to advance along nerves...
...called traditional methods of producing grand opera and stage it in terms of the present-day American theater ... If it seemed better show business to project The Ride of the Valkyries' by means of a motion-picture machine than to do it with four girls on hobbyhorses, a motion-picture machine should be used...
...anybody thought the meat packers were getting rich on the present market, they had another think coming. Armour & Co. last week said that livestock prices had gone "far beyond levels warranted by the selling price of meats." Armour had tied up so much of its cash in inventory that it could not pay a dividend. Its stock promptly dropped 2⅜ points to 10¼, the low for the year, and touched off selling in other meat-packing stocks...
...fares 10%-and started a rate war. Eastern, T.W.A. and United announced that they would also raise their extra-fare (DC6 and Constellation) rates, which had been around 10% higher than ordinary fares. American Airlines, which thought the traffic was already being charged all it would bear, kept the present fare on DC-6s, wiping out the extra-fare differential and underselling the other lines. The new basic fares brought the U.S. average to 6? a mile (highest since 1935), compared to a 3? average for railroad coach fares...