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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government ought to be helping industry to its feet ... it even almost ought to err in that direction." So said red-haired Attorney General Frank Murphy last week. Since he tends strictly to his legal knitting and engages in none of the New Deal's economic fancywork, his sentiments were merely sentiments. But the same day two other members of the Administration went to the help of Business with good advice about the war boom...
Lunching with Manhattan's Bond Club, Under Secretary of the Treasury John Hanes stood up and predicted an era of business expansion soundly based on the investment of new capital in utility and industrial plants with or without war. Said he: "We were on the road to economic recovery prior to Poland." This naturally warmed the hearts of his hearers and encouraged them in expansion...
Meantime from the mimeographs of the Department of Commerce issued a statement signed by Secretary Harry, and written under the auspices of his new Bureau of Industrial Economics. Its No. 1 sparkplug: 37-year-old Harvardman Dick Gilbert. It said (Mr. Hanes notwithstanding...
Four years later the happy Pittsburgh doctor attended a convention of the College of Surgeons. Late for a meeting, he raced up two flights of stairs with a couple of friends. To their amazement, said Dr. Graham last week, the only one not winded by the climb was the doctor with one lung. His healthy lung had expanded, had completely filled the hollow space in his chest cavity...
Vitamins. Even in California, the land of oranges and lemons, said Dr. Emile Frederic Holman of San Francisco's Stanford University School of Medicine, "44% of ordinary run-of-the-mill patients [are] deficient in vitamin C and 13% [are] on the verge of scurvy." They have no reserve of healing "cement substances" in their blood, and not enough of the elements that build bones, teeth and cartilage. Since healing wounds of vitamin C-deficient guinea pigs have "inferior tensile strength, a disposition to gape ... a livid appearance, and a soft consistency," they rupture easily. Lack of vitamin...