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...symptoms of allergy may be asthma, hay fever, edema (swelling), hives, eczema, sick headache, diarrhea, stomachache. Dr. Vaughan estimates that the U. S. has 6,000,000 people with hay fever, 600,000 to 3,500,000 with asthma, 3,000,000 with recurrent sick headaches, 4,000,000 with frequent or occasional hives-that altogether some 60,000,000 of the U. S. population have had, or will have, some major or minor allergic symptom at some time during their lives...
...enthusiasm a year ago, but is struggling for a comeback. He represents a great body of French Canadians who are getting almost as wary of World War II as they were of World War I (when there were ugly antidraft riots). If Mayor Raynault is a symptom of a resurgence of Duplessis sentiment, Canada may have to clap many more French Canadians into detention camps to keep French Canada in line...
...minds of Authors Grafton and Laski, World War II is 1) a symptom that capitalist democracy can no longer solve its own economic and social problems; 2) a heaven-sent chance to ram through, under the guise of wartime necessity, radical social changes that citizens would never stand for in peacetime. Laski calls his program "revolution by consent." He proposes that the owners of property consent to what they cannot prevent...
...Civil War Cavalryman. He forces himself to concentrate on the unlikely chance of a long, happy life with Maria after the Revolution is won. Everlastingly he talks to himself, standing aside and sizing himself up. But he finds out, as all his fellow-sufferers must, that this is a symptom of his discase, and not a cure. It only makes the ailment worse, for this is a kind of mental sickness that feeds upon itself...
...Symptom of N.A.B.'s growing confidence in itself was a play put on for the delegates at convention's end. It did a good job of spoofing radio in general and FCC in particular. Sample chorus by the show's FCCommissioners, made up to look like seven Disney dwarfs...