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...publicity might stamp out Chicago syphilis by 1945. Besides wholesale blood-testing, Dr. Bundesen plans to hound every person who has a venereal disease into hospitals. He also threatened to tack up red quarantine posters on houses of prostitution where the inmates resist treatment. Every person who crosses the threshold of such a quarantined house will be liable to a fine of $200 and six months in jail...
...when the U.S. stood on the threshold of world trade and world power, Manhattan's National City Bank opened its first foreign branch in Buenos Aires. It was forced to staff the new bank with Englishmen, because-to the disgust of City Bank president, the late Frank Arthur Vanderlip-few U.S. citizens with South American know-how were available. Sensing the U.S.'s new world role, Banker Vanderlip began giving tough 12-to-18-month courses in foreign economics, languages, business customs to college graduates, for jobs in the City Bank's foreign service...
...specialized group, they represented a fact about U.S. business: that in the course of doing from $3 billion to $13 billion worth of exporting and importing each year since World War I, it has developed at least the nucleus of a new professional class. With the U.S. on the threshold of waging economic war on many fronts (see p. 69), professionals are needed. It is no longer possible to hire Britons. The men at last week's little reunion knew all this. Through their talk ran speculation about when and where they would be called...
While Ambassador Franz von Papen was busy with this bulldozing in Turkey, the German Army last week completed its preparations on the threshold of the Near East and got a winged foot inside the door...
...their experiments, Drs. Wolff, James D. Hardy and Helen Goodell tried a mixture of two ounces of 95% grain alcohol in a glass of ginger ale on themselves, found that it raises the "threshold" of pain 45% for two hours. Two ounces of 90-proof whiskey will turn the same trick. If a five-grain tablet of aspirin is added, any pain can be dulled for four hours. Dr. Wolff urged his colleagues to return to the use of whiskey for "persons suffering continuously," especially cancer victims. Said he: "It is cheaper than morphine. ... Of course alcohol is habit-forming...