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...Last week the President . . . signed a bill to tighten standards for on-the-job training of veterans" (TIME...
Physiologists believe that in many cases high blood pressure is caused by hormones which tighten blood vessels and interfere with the normal flow of body fluids. A University of Pennsylvania researcher now reports that he has identified one of them, has had promising results with extra doses of the pressure-raising hormone itself...
...Signed a bill to tighten standards for on-the-job training of veterans...
...citizen was not alone in sacrificing. Britain, Canada, even abundant Argentine set in motion plans to tighten their citizens' belts, increase their food contributions to prevent a world tragedy (see INTERNATIONAL...
...budget was the pending $3,750,000,000 U.S. loan. Without that, warned Dalton, Britain would have to cut imports sharply, revamp all figures, tighten trade controls. But the "if" grew less "iffy"; the bill for the loan was sent to the U.S. Senate floor last week with a 14-to-5 vote of approval by the Banking & Currency Committee...