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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...locker. The same meat, bought over the counter, would cost him $90; his total cost now is $40, including locker rent. If John Smith is expecting a threshing crew in hot weather, when he could not otherwise serve fresh meat from his own stock, he may well save from $100 to $200 during that one work period...
...sufficient food stores to hold out in case an enemy cut off Great Britain's supplies. "We calculate our three months' supply ought to be enough for us in any temporary squeeze,'' replied His Lordship, "but no method of food storage is going to save us as long as we do not keep our control...
...never gabbed about G. H. Q.,' and many things I've done were not understood except by my mother, who taught me where real direction comes from. ... I had been a nut for years, for not leaving my wonderful mother for some man, to save myself from being an old maid. My mother was called by G. H. Q. very suddenly. Without asking for it, I was given the knowledge, as mother was leaving, that where there is real devotion there is no parting. While others broke down, I was the only one capable of handling all details...
Recently Sir Thomas Lewis, eminent London heart specialist, made a special study of how an arm or leg dies when an embolus (floating clot) plugs a main artery which feeds blood to that limb. Competent heart specialists and surgeons generally see such blood-starved limbs too late to save them from gangrene and amputation. Last week, by chance, a Chicago doctor, Geza deTakats, in the American Journal of Surgery, and a Toronto doctor, Donald Walton Gordon Murray, in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, each gave explicit directions for locating such a destructive clot, removing it by surgery, thus saving...
What particularly galled Governor Hoffman were the following broadcast statements in Carter's clipped, British accent: "And so crazier and crazier grows the Hauptmann affair-more and more desperate over the week end became New Jersey's Governor to justify his official blundering and save his tottering political reputation-more and more dizzy stunts are dragged across the old trails to befuddle the public and confuse the main issue. "And so round and round-just as the music goes round and round-so round and round goes the Hauptmann affair-one of the most shocking exhibitions of gubernatorial...