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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were two things to be done: either tear down the White House and start anew, or save the shell and rebuild the foundations and interior. Tearing it down entirely would have saved perhaps 10% of the bill, but even the most tight-fisted Congressman found a little sentiment stirring in his breast at so crass a thought. Last week a congressional committee approved plans for the spending of $5,400,000 to restore 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a way destined to make the White House survive in all its classic glory for another 300 to 500 years...
...shot, ducked out the back door and dived into a canal. The Dwarf tore off his blue gown and rushed into the house, firing wildly. He killed Pramote's eight-year-old niece and the Ceylonese guest. Then The Dwarf dashed out, shouting to his pal to start Pramote's Packard. Pramote's chauffeur protested, trying to protect his boss's car. The Dwarf killed him, too. By the time police arrived, The Dwarf had disappeared...
Armour is conducting its own research in the hope of increasing the supply, said Mote. If the complex structure of the ACTH molecule can be determined, he hopes to be able to stop making it in minute quantities from hogs' heads, and start to synthesize it by the hogshead. Until then, the millions of sarthritics and the countless sufferers from gout and a dozen other diseases must live in hope...
Although night harness racing (trotters and pacers) is a profitable enterprise in many U.S. localities, after-dark running races have made only a small start in one state (Oregon). Old-fashioned breed improvers are appalled at the very idea of displaying the sport of kings under lights; trainers, who like to work their charges in the cool of early morning, hate any thought of changing their customs; and jockeys dislike the idea of joining the nightworker class. But a few horse-park operators have been dreaming, somewhat wistfully, of the potentially big turnouts they might draw after dark...
...speculation for fall is good. The reports are too uniform to be mere pep talk. The depression feeling has been completely reversed. With the big football schedules coming up and all the possible World Series towns now linked by coaxial cable, television ought to get off to a big start by fall...