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...destroyer commander on patrol before Pearl Harbor has stopped a fancy, high-powered motorboat inside the restricted zone, has had bland apologies from its Japanese crew. But none has failed to notice that the boat's brightwork was gleaming, that the three or four men aboard looked uncommon bright and neat for fishermen, had binoculars handy. Thickening the mystery was the fact that many of these fishing craft were owned by Orientals who were actually clerks, laborers and housewives...
...roller is probably the highest-paid man in the industry, and on the average his base rate will run $2 or more per hour, exclusive of tonnage bonuses. For the 40-hour week, this would make a base rate of $80, and it is not uncommon to find rollers today drawing $200 a week or more. In other words, in the past few weeks in this district a roller received better than $60 for a day's work...
...little better housed too. There were fewer queues outside the food stores, shops and warehouses appeared better stocked than in 1932, and street begging had considerably decreased. However, people in rags, with indescribably dirty hands and faces, often covered with pocks and scars, are far from uncommon...
Early in his career, Dr. Grenfell saw that medical care was not enough. The people were so melancholy that suicides were not uncommon. One father killed his young family. Dr. Grenfell had to teach them how to live. He set them to work planting turnips, cabbages, tomatoes for protection against scurvy, established cooperative stores, built trade schools, orphanages, imported sheep and goats. started home industries-mink breeding, rug-making, walrus-tusk carving...
...Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association last week, Dr. Hawker noted that surgical interference was necessary twice as frequently for the 102 heavyweights (14.7%) as for the whole series (7.2%). The ratio of the common head presentation to the uncommon breech presentation was the same for the big babies as for the whole group, but three out of four of the hindside-first heavyweight babies were lost. Altogether eight of the big babies died before or during delivery. But among their mothers there were only two cases of hemorrhage after birth, and not one mother died...