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...extra $25 million for capital improvements, 2) reduce the inflationary pressure which has doubled and trebled some prices since February, 3) expose the black-marketeers and currency speculators who hold much of Israel's large-denomination banknotes. The Israeli government has promised that the nation would be solvent by 1958. But would the first forced loan be the last? Nervous Israelis hurried off to the nearest jewelers, to convert currency into fluctuation-proof diamonds...
...often happens, the new pain reliever was discovered by accident. The venerable (est. 1764) Swiss pharmaceutical house of Geigy Co. was trying to find a solvent for the almost insoluble painkiller, Pyramidon. Geigy chemists hit upon phenylbutazone, which worked well as a solvent and then paid a big bonus: it turned out to have remarkable painkilling qualities of its own. Geigy started churning out phenylbutazone (from coal tar) for research...
...Mountain States-plus more than 100 scattered reinforcements from other parts of the country. The Eisenhower forces chipped away some of Taft's Midwest bloc, e.g., Iowa, 15 for Ike, nine for Taft, corralled some delegates in the Mountain States, and were applying the Eisenhower brand of solvent to Taft's Solid South (see below...
...H.A.A. would free the Admissions Office and other University officers completely from concern about fielding a football team that will draw crowds. Gate receipts would not be expected to pay for seventy-five percent of the H.A.A.'s expenses as they theoretically do now. Athletics at Harvard would be solvent, amateur, and available for all without high additional costs. Moreover, this plan would definitely promote athletics for all--for both participant and observer...
Keck gave the portrait a good going-over with a magnifying glass, then with X-ray photographs. Sure enough, under the pretty features lay another shadowy face. For three months, Keck worked painstakingly with a solvent mixture, cotton swabs and a delicate scalpel, removed the varnish and the top layer of paint. As he worked, a totally different young lady appeared. Writes Keck in the current museum Bulletin: "The mouth was wider and less luscious; the nose was longer and definitely hooked . . . the eyes were smaller and not so soft and liquid. The entire shape of the face was subtly...