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...South might possibly handle our own personal problems with, what shall we say, a heavy hand. And you of the East? Black Legion? Of the West? California Kidnap Lynchings? Tar and Feather parties? Of the North and Midwest? Milk Spillings and Strike Riots? Sho you-all don't mention those...
...young teacher in San Francisco's dismal Tar Flat section named Kate Douglas Wiggin (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) made the kindergarten popular in one of her first tales, The Story of Patsy. When the Atlantic Monthly damned the kindergarten as "a joy saloon," spunky Miss Wiggin flashed: "I like the name. Anyone who has seen, as I have, the dreary tenement rooms in which many children live would be glad to give them little tipples of joy." [Another generous early patron was Boston's Mrs. Quincy Shaw, who at one time kept 30 kindergartens going. Once a youngster...
...disease. But they do not develop cancer unless some susceptible part of the body is unduly irritated by: 1) carcinogenic chemicals, 2) physical agents (X-rays, strong sun light, repeated abrasions as from a jagged tooth), 3) possibly, biological products produced by parasites. Carcinogenic chemicals occur in coal tar, bile acids, female sex hormone. However, no one under stands the exact way in which any of these causes cancer in those individuals who are susceptible to cancer...
...buzzer, hefty President Baumhogger prepared to make the fur fly for Certainteed. Shuffled out of the management along with his predecessor, Chester E. Rahr, were five executives including 70-year-old Chairman George Marion Brown, who had been the mainspring of Certainteed ever since its beginning as a small tar-paper plant in East St. Louis in 1904. Precipitator of the shuffle was Phoenix Securities' smart President Wallace Groves, who bought Mr. Brown's controlling interest in Certainteed last spring. What Mr. Groves wanted was a stake in the current building boom. What he acquired...
Like dinitrophenol, Prontosil is an aro matic coal tar product. Prontosil's full chemical formula is the disodium salt of 4-sulph-amido-phenyl-2-azo-7-acetylamino-1-hydroxynaphthalene 3.6-disulfonic acid. All doctors fear new drugs derived from coal tar. They may exhibit unexpected deadliness. In the case of Prontosil, since like dinitrophenol it affects the production of white blood cells, it comes under the medical rule of thumb: what ever stimulates may also destroy. And it may be that the new drug by which Dr. Tobey cured Franklin Roosevelt Jr.'s septic sore throat...