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...Farley, it now appeared, was ready to be called "the greatest Postmaster General since Benjamin Franklin." But last week Ashmun N. Brown, alert Washington correspondent for the Providence Journal, dug out of the Treasury report the old fact of the Post Office's $52,000,000 deficit. Explanation of the Farley surplus, he showed, lay in the vague and inconspicuous phrase about "adjustments" for "certain subventions and free mailing services." That covered Post Office expenditures of $64,000,000?the cost of ocean and air mail subsidies, the estimated cost of carrying free government mail. To create his surplus...
...remarkably late hour last night, the steamroller had not been towed away, neither had the malefactor presented himself to the indignant Colonel. However, the alert student body had begun to suspect that the deed was but a prank on the part of one of Harvard's inveterate wags...
...German blacksmith, Chicago's "Flying Dutchman" Jay Berwanger, who wears a white mask to protect a nose broken in his freshman year, found Illinois backs alert against passes, Illinois linemen on guard against power plays. Galbreath's touchdown in the first period won for Illinois...
Often enough to annoy a surgeon, the heart of a patient on the operating table stops. The alert surgeon gives the patient an injection of adrenalin, or tickles the heart with a needle, or stimulates it with an electrical pacemaker (TIME, Dec. 19, 1932). Or if he is working in the cavity of the chest or abdomen he may massage the heart back into action...
...District Court. The judge deputed Deputy Marshal Harry Baker to serve the papers on the Cacuta's captain. The marshal found the Colombian captain on the bridge one day last week. He turned out to be one J. R. Hodges, late of Mobile, Ala. An alert newshawk of the Philadelphia Record was on hand to record in dialect the conversation...