Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United and for which new contracts are to be let include the West Coast run from Seattle to San Diego, the Salt Lake City-Spokane "feeder" line and an important route from Chicago to Fort Worth via Kansas City. Only old United route not to get a new con tract is the Tulsa-Watertown feeder line
Ketones. Infections of the kidney and bladder tract are hard for doctors to treat. Drs. Arnold E. Osterberg and Henry F. Helmholz of the Mayo Clinic reported experiments showing that ketonic bodies in the blood, such as acetone, diacetic acid and beta-oxybutyric acid, will cure such infections if generated in sufficient quantities. Best diet for stimulating ketone production is high in fat, low in proteins and sugar. Ideal fat-protein-sugar proportion...
Hell on Earth (Aeolian Pictures) is a polylingual peace tract, adapted from a story by Leonhard Frank (Karl and Anna) and filmed in pre-Nazi Germany. Its gospel is Internationalism according to Marx...
...Minister to Persia, President Roosevelt chose William Harrison ("Bill") Hornibrook of Utah, Minister to Siam under President Wilson. The Administration owed quiet, erudite Mr. Hornibrook, publisher of the Salt Lake Times, a double debt. A militant Democrat but no Mormon, he published last year a tract called "Thirty Reasons Why Smoot Should Be Defeated." Onetime Senator Smoot admits the pamphlet defeated his reelection. By substituting Senator James Watson's name for Smoot's, the tract was also used to good effect in the Indiana Senatorial campaign...
...rest, Scribner's is conventional Christmas, with the exception of a disappointing analysis of consumers by Stuart Chase and an involved labor-N.R.A. tract by Benjamin Stolberg. There is intellectual nostalgia from Edmund Wilson, and then holly gets under way with the Abbe Dimnet, James Gould Cozzens, and reviews by William Lyon Phelps. Mr. Phelps, as usual, finds all right with the world; the Abbe has played forerunner by finding that God's in His Heaven...