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...Prohibition days is proving of great value." Takamoto Hosokawa, onetime New York correspondent for the newspaper Asahi, looked hopefully to U.S. political turmoil next year: "In the event Roosevelt is eliminated," said he, "there will be an estrangement in relations with England, and a darkening state will develop internally...
...that they were celebrities. Cagney and Miss Lawrence answered no. Said Benchley: "When I started out on what you call my 'career' I weighed 143 Ib. and had never had an intoxicating drink. I always wore a 'Belmont' 14½ collar and did exercises to develop my neck. You ask me if I feel different today...
...Colonel Buckley,' I said, 'you British believe in capital; we believe in capitalism. . . . With us the initiative of the individual comes first; and capital . . . comes second. You put capital and security of income first. You are astonished because a large Liverpool company can develop in 80 years from ?50,000; we would be astonished if a large Chicago company had that much capital 80 years ago or even existed...
Nearly everybody in the U.S. harbors organisms of trench mouth, may develop the disease if his resistance gets too low from poor nutrition or a bender. Then a bacillus and a spirochete (and sometimes other mouth germs) work together to produce tender, bleeding gums (medical name: Vincent's stomatitis) or throat and tonsil infections (medical name: Vincent's angina). Mouthwashing with hydrogen peroxide is one of the commonest treatments. But treatment usually goes on & on in serious cases...
Swedish-born, 63-year-old Gus Swebilius is among the world's great authorities on guns-he helped Inventor John Moses Browning develop his famed gun in World War I. He took a $12,000,000 British rush order for machine guns back in 1940, when no one else would touch it. With no tools, and very little plant (his total capital was a mere $65,000), he got into production in less than six months v. a normal time of 18 months, using ancient tools begged & borrowed from back-alley plants all over...