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...Indianapolis, Newark, New York, Philadelphia. Pittsburgh, Washington-"communities most of which are financially able to provide whatever may be needed in the way of control measures." These Negroes, numbering about 1,500,000, "intensely Race conscious," have higher tuberculosis death rates than their rural Southern cousins. But they are handier to deal with. As prime examples of tuberculosis prevention among Negroes, the National Tuberculosis Association last week pointed with pride...
...Dour John Brown, scratching a bare living as a farmer in the Adirondacks, was a fanatical Abolitionist. He had sent some of his seven big sons out to help settle Kansas, keep her from becoming a slave state. Soon they needed help, sent word rifles would come in handier than bread. John Brown took the rifles out himself. When the Southerners burned Lawrence, John Brown took a bloody revenge. With a small party he went in the dead of night to enemy cabins, took men out of their beds and killed them in cold blood. After that...
Giving a reverse twist to the same basic idea, Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. (5,200 stores in the midwest) approached publishers last year with the proposal: "The average chain grocery is handier to the home than the average drug store. Why not sell through us?" Alert Editor George Horace Lorimer promptly seized upon the plan for Curtis Publishing Co. Last February, Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal were on sale in a few Kroger stores; last week in 1,459; next month in 350 more. Each magazine is rolled inside a wrapper bearing the Kroger name...
...valleys, cut by many a swift river, densely populated, primarily a manufacturing area needing railroads to carry workers and their products, their necessities, New England is a hydro-electric El Dorado. Its latent wealth of White Gold was discovered comparatively late owing to a} pre-emption of the handier power sites by textile and other factories; b} New England conservatism - small men content to make and sell power in a small...
...bankers are planning handsome developments, which is to say exploitations, in Peru. But Mr. Moore, with all the money a man could decently desire, is far above being a dollar diplomatist. All he might gain is greater familiarity with financial bigwigs, and that he could compass by far handier means; as a home-loving tabloid publisher, for example...