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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meat Diet. Arctic Explorers Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Karsten Anderson lived in the U. S. eating for a whole year nothing but beef muscle, tongue, liver, kidney, brain, fat, bone marrow, veal, lamb, pork, chicken, meat broths, black tea, water. They lived as ordinary city dwellers, except that they carefully walked an hour or so each day and occasionally ran about two and one-half miles. Their health remained excellent in all ways, leading New York's Eugene Floyd Du Bois, W. S. McClellan, H. J. Spencer and E. A. Falk, who studied them, to conclude that "in general white...
First rejoicing at the sudden aloneness, then mortified, he wept while the futility of the whole affair made him laugh...
...bank of a chain can (and on occasion has*) failed without affecting the solvency of the other banks of the chain, but no branch of a branch bank fails unless the whole bank is submerged...
...swallowed up by a large bank, you will probably see that a chain bank remains a local bank with the interests of its neighborhood at heart; that branch banking is likely to result in financial monopoly; that incompetence or dishonesty in a few high places can ruin a whole branch banking system. If you are a large city banker wishing to expand, you will very likely see that a branch bank can be of more assistance in time of trouble because its risks are spread over wide area; that in branch banking credit is very liquid so that...
...special brand of soup that retails for $2 a quart, see the 50 women who do what no machines can do (peel onions all day long), see the five soup tasters who together pass on every brew?the word of any one of whom is enough to damn a whole batch to destruction...