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...calls the step test "the quickest and best test yet discovered" to judge physical development. He is confident of bringing the seven men up to passing by "teaching them how to pace themselves...
Civilian Goods. U.S. housewives may get cocktail shakers before they get vacuum cleaners. Reason: articles which need few parts can be made quickest, as soon as metal is available. First goods to be made from surplus metals will be teakettles, washtubs, tableware, pots & pans, hairpins, safety pins, etc. Second in line are things made in quantity now, but largely absorbed by the Army. Sample: radio equipment. The radio industry has expanded about twelve times; even an 8% cutback would take care of prewar civilian demands. But-Army & Navy demands for radio-radar equipment are going...
...Express was conceived as our contribution to the Good Neighbor Policy," we wrote in asking these men for their opinions. "We are not unduly concerned over immediate profits or losses if only this new venture is proving its worth in other ways-for we firmly believe that the quickest possible exchange of news is essential to hemisphere solidarity and to the strengthening of the ties of commerce and general goodwill between the Americas...
...were ruptured by the rope and the person was alive when hanged. Suicide by shooting also has a characteristic pattern: a suicide usually shoots himself in the temple, often misses the first two or three times (technically known as "hesitation shots"). Shooting oneself in the head is not the quickest or surest suicide method. Shooters often live for hours or days after hitting themselves. It is very difficult to shoot oneself in the heart (the bullet usually ricochets off the breastbone or a rib). Oddly, suicides never seem to shoot themselves through their clothes, seem always to bare the skin...
...these frequently become involved in crimes. . . ." Dr. Snyder debunks some common notions about poisons: arsenic and strychnine, for example, though often used, are very dangerous to a murderer, because their presence in the body can be detected for some time after the murder. Strychnine, one of the surest, quickest killers (sometimes within 15 minutes), can be detected three months after death. One of the hardest poisons to detect is morphine (its effects are easily confused with alcoholism, apoplexy). One of the deadliest is aconite (a hundredth of a grain is a killing dose). Perhaps the worst poison a suicide...