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...crayons, a pencil, a chocolate bar, a chicken neck, hen manure, a dead sparrow, a rat skull and a whole mouse. Even if feathers prove to be poor disease carriers, concluded Lind dryly, "we should consider that the renovation of old feather pillows is of importance from the standpoint of general good housekeeping and psychological effect...
...though he feels that something in the water may be responsible, the precise ingredient eludes him. The evidence excludes practically all the known factors: iron, manganese, sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, carbonates, sulfates and nitrates, and a variety of softening agents. Also -and most important from the public-health standpoint-it shows that addition of chlorine and fluorides has no effect on heart-artery disease. One clue: the more alkaline the water, the greater the protective effect on human arteries. This may be because more acid waters, which build up "rust in the pipes" to plague plumbers, also pick up impurities...
...facts are that for a few years we owned a company that did a relatively small (about 5% of the market) business selling oil in Israel. Problems of foreign exchange and competition from the government-owned oil-marketing company in Israel made the operation unattractive from a purely commercial standpoint. So we sold the business...
...case. But the 378-page dossier, said Pearl River District Attorney Vernon Broom last week, was mostly "hearsay." The grand jury did not even get to see the FBI findings. Leaving the case "unsolved," the grand jury thanked Judge Dale for his "inspired charge," declared that "from the standpoint of citizenship and law enforcement, our county compares favorably with any in the world...
From the economic standpoint, Dean Brown cited the expense of hiring chaperones and extra janitors, as well as a secretary to watch daily operation. She also claimed that the theatre's architecture is unsuitable for "quiet study...