Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Eyebrows in Washington, where President Roosevelt's latest formula for aiding Britain amounted to passive belligerence, rose only slightly at Mr. Cross's implied suggestion. One way to put the Axis and Axis-controlled ships into Britain's hands would be to raise port charges on them prohibitively, take over the ships on default, sell them to Mr. Cross...
...impeded by the disconcerting presence of irrelevant comics. In this one, the Sultan of Sloth finally achieves the kind of delightful outrage which has made his fan list long & faithful. There are 74 minutes of almost clear Fields-as much a one-man show as the fences of cinema formula will allow...
...doctor, Jesús Pueyo claims to have cured almost 200 patients with his vaccine, given in courses of 20 injections under the guidance of Dr. Francisco Romero. He will not reveal the formula of his vaccine, says it is made by neutralizing tubercle bacilli from human sputum with a special chemical. The vaccine, he holds, stimulates production of tuberculosis antibodies. Last fall the newspaper La Critica took up Pueyo's cause. The National Department of Hygiene promised to experiment if he revealed his formula. He refused. A newspaper row started. Then patients took matters into their own hands...
Doctors in Buenos Aires were cautious and divided over the vaccine last week. Most physicians are skeptical, hold that it might be possible to develop a preventive vaccine, but that diseased, ruptured lungs can never be healed by any "formula...
...long. The average miniature is 16 inches long, weighs seven pounds, is made of aluminum castings painted according to its owner's whim. Its tiny, two-cycle motor, wide open, can turn over up to 25,000 revolutions a minute. For fuel, some owners have their own secret formula. But the most commonly used "soups" are over-the-counter concoctions of castor oil, menthenol, alcohol, ether, nitrobenzol and other rapid-burning combustibles. Price per gallon: 75? up. The average miniature car runs a mile on two ounces...