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...major change in its economic life. After four years of regimentation, the war-erupted mountain of Government restrictions was about to disappear...
...usual method: trace an outline of the child's hand, draw in life-size warts with a red or blue pencil. The child is told to look for "a very faint tingling in [his] warts. . . . That is a sign that they will soon disappear." The child takes the chart home, daily compares the real warts with those on the sketch, notes their shrinkage. Treatment is not confined to the hands. For the nine-year-old daughter of a skeptical dermatologist, Dr. Vollmer was able to charm away a faceful of warts in six weeks...
...companies hold mineral rights or options on almost all of the fertile grainlands, and there are few surface outcrops. If, as some Canadian and London experts warned that it might, the single borehole assay proved a fluke, thousands of speculators and small investors might see millions in paper profits disappear as fast as a summer shower on the parched Orange Free State fields...
...company will be able to keep its cost of making gasoline down by selling the by-products of its process-1,164 barrels of Diesel oil and 70,000 pounds of alcohol a day. But if the price of gasoline should fall far enough, the profit may well disappear. RFC and the oil companies think the gamble well worth while: if the venture succeeds, it may eventually increase the potential gasoline production...
...Doctors agree that 1,500 calories a day (the U.S. Army gets 3,600) is rock-bottom if the body is to perform even the primary function of keeping alive. Below 1,500 calories the body begins to feed on itself. Fat layers between muscles and around vital organs disappear. Anemia sets in. As resistance is lowered, the system falls easy prey to tuberculosis, dysentery, blood poisoning...