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...Rodriguez Market, covering four blocks of Mexico City's slum section, was finished last year and named for Mexico's immensely wealthy President Rodriguez. Besides being one of the world's largest markets, it is a community recreation centre for the city's poor. The area assigned to the nine muralists was 16,000 sq. ft., about 1,800 sq. ft. apiece, to be covered by the end of 1935. Each was permitted to pick his own theme, subject to esthetic supervision by Diego Rivera, topical supervision by the Federal Government's Civic Action Department...
...that "livestock that was on short rations is again feeding on green pastures,' the Department of Agriculture wrote: "By borrowing where they could, using Government loans and seeds so far as available and keeping their tractors chugging far beyond the usual hours of labor [farmers in the drought area] and their families have planted acreages of spring wheat, oats, barley and flax that seemed impossible three months...
...Chaco, with an area of 297,938 square kilometers and possessing richness and illimitable possibilities, with a population of more than 100,000 inhabitants, is, today, little known. The most flourishing industrial establishments of the Republic: the great cattle ranches and agricultural colonies; the more than 500 kilometers of railroad bear witness to the civilizing capacity of Paraguay in the Chaco. That the Chaco is not the "green hell" of popular imagination may be easily realized by a consideration of the principal centres of civilization within its borders. Among these...
...coverage. To citizens of western North Carolina this statement, as well as like items in the daily press, is the subject of much concern. Were it true?we'd take it and like it. But, since it so happens that the number of cases of infantile paralysis in this area is below the average, and there are absolutely no indications of a spread, it would appear only right that you follow up your last story with a statement showing the true state of affairs, and thus relieve us of an appearance of epidemic which cannot but harm...
...most common medical procedures today is the skin test by means of which doctors tell whether a person is sensitive to ragweed, strawberries, horsehair, chicken feathers, scarlet fever, diphtheria or any other known allergen. The physician scrapes off a tiny area of the patient's skin, applies a drop or two of the allergic substance, covers the whole with a piece of adhesive plaster. Skin tests have preserved the health and lives of multitudes. They have also" served to reveal that about 1% of the population develops an eczema-like skin irritation solely from the adhesive tape used...