Word: treatment
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...Chief," who has not always seen eye to eye with Winchell, nodded his approval. Hearst sent a "letter" to his managing editors instructing them on a significant change in the treatment of Russian news. Wrote Hearst: "We no longer have to give so much space to Russia [or] to the probable destructive attack upon our nation by Russia. The thing of importance now, is ... the plan of universal military service. . .. Every American must be a soldier ready ... to defend [the U.S.] from annihilation. . . . The President must call Congress to deal promptly with this vital question...
Compared to the neat way American record companies have produced Mozart symphonies and Beethoven quartets in a series of performances by the recognized authorities in those fields, the treatment of Romantic piano music has been little short of chaotic. In this extraordinarily rich and varied field, there has been no planning, no skillful choice of works to be recorded, and little utilization of the pianists...
...Modern Treatment. Cholera, an infection of the digestive tract, kills chiefly by removing water from the body. The blood gets too thick to circulate, and death comes from "shock." Modern treatment knocks off the vibrios (comma-shaped, whiskery bacteria) with sulfa drugs, and dilutes the thickening blood with saline solution or serum. The vaccine has worked well. No one receiving two injections (cost: 3?) has yet got the disease; only one who has had a single shot has come down with...
Died. Baron Henri de Rothschild, 75. French financier, physician, philanthropist and viniculturist; of a heart ailment; near Lausanne, Switzerland. Probably the most noteworthy of the Rothschilds, Baron Henri won respect for his work on infants' diseases, on milk as a food, and on the radium treatment of cancer (he set up the famed Pierre Curie Institute for radium research). He also found time to write plays for the Paris stage...
...thinks that the U.S. needs about 10 million tons of added capacity. To get it, Ruttenberg told the New York Society of Security Analysts that the steel industry should have more incentive to expand. To offset the inflated cost of expansion, the Government, said he, should give preferential tax treatment to steel profits spent on plant expansion...