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...naval units shown were old Tsarist models of creaky vintage. Such airplanes as appeared seemed to be copied from obsolete U. S. models. The Red Army was unconsciously shown to be a stumblebug which has plenty of weapons but will take years to learn to use them, and to develop snap and guts for fighting...
...oily nose drops; 2) nightly doses of mineral oil for constipation; 3) forced feedings of cod-liver or halibut-liver oil to rebellious children. Often the oil slides down the throat into the lungs, where it clogs up air sacs, inflames delicate tissues, forms abscesses and scars. Victims develop a hacking cough, run a low fever. Lipid or oil pneumonia is difficult to diagnose, for few physicians know much about it, and different oils cause different symptoms. In old people oil pneumonia is sometimes mistaken for cancer of the lung. Pneumonia caused by bacteria can be successfully combated with serums...
Concluding that "social habits which develop in response to cultural sanctions cannot be eliminated by sumptuary legislation," he pointed to the complete failure of prohibition in the U. S. as "eloquent testimony of the essentially alcoholic nature of contemporary American culture...
...moppet in Waukegan, Ill., where his father ran a haberdashery shop, Benny fiddled with juvenile orchestras, played for dances and firemen's balls. Proud hope of his family in those early years was that Benny would develop into a concert violinist. Instead he teamed at 17 with a vaudeville pianist named Cora Salisbury in an act called "From Grand Opera to Ragtime." As part of his business in this turn (for which he got $15 a week), Benny sawed away with the little finger of his bow hand elegantly extended, pretended to be mesmerized by its motion back & forth...
...reorganization of the nationalized railroads, 4) mechanization of farms, 5) a network of five U. S. highways converging on Mexico City (to be built largely with U. S. defense funds). With the $100,000,000 (more than last year's Mexican budget) the syndicate made specific proposals to develop almost every phase of Mexican life: industry, agriculture, railroads, mining, natural gas, hydraulic power, tourist business, amusements, canning, fishing, manufacture of paper matches. In return for this Good Neighborliness, they would not go begging. Taxes in Mexico are generally lower than in the U. S., return on investment generally higher...