Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vegetables and fruits formerly word not a common source of illness. Overripe fruit or uncooked fruit and raw vegetables that have been improperly cleansed occasionally cause trouble. Recently the extensive use of arsenic sprays of apples, peas, green beans, spinach, cabbage and lettuce has resulted in wide-spread outbreaks of acute gastro-intestinal irritation. Cider has been a prominent source of acute upsets, due to arsenic residues. Arsenic produces almost exactly the same symptoms as decomposed protein...
...federal inspection, state supervision, local health department food inspection and every precaution taken by the University staff-an occasional outbreak of gastrointestinal illness occurs. These are practically inevitable because of the complexity of our mode of life and the great number of processes that are required in bringing our wide variety of food stuffs from the farm to the table...
...color spread unprecedented in a 10? magazine, LIFE gave its readers three pages of prints from the work of Kansas' John Steuart Curry. In brilliant, accurate reproduction were seen the famed U. S. artist's Line Storm, bad weather brooding on a wide Western landscape; Tornado Over Kansas, in which a family tumble into their storm cellar; Sanctuary, which shows farm animals huddling from a flood on an islet; and two of Mr. Curry's celebrated circus paintings: Elephants and The Flying Codonas...
...motorist ascends a mile-long ramp up Rincon Hill, then over the world's two largest suspension bridges, stretching end-to-end for two miles to Yerba Buena ("Goat") Island. There, the highway dives for 500 ft. through the world's largest bore tunnel, 76 ft. wide, 58 ft. high. Next come the world's third largest cantilever bridge (1,400 ft.), five smaller spans, then a long trestle to the Oakland shore. Total length is eight and one quarter miles. The whole structure is strong enough to resist the mightiest earthquake ever known. If the biggest...
...optimism, the prospects of big Christmas spendings were rosy indeed. Aside from the continuing upward drive of Recovery, there are two good reasons for this rosiness, for both of which Mr. Farley could claim Democratic credit. One is the rising tide of extra dividend declarations, the other the nation-wide movement to raise wages, pay bonuses...