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Rich and sprawling Sears, Roebuck & Co. was embarking on its most ambitious foreign venture. The No. 1 U.S. mail order-chain casually let the news leak out that it had bought a $516,000 site in Mexico City and was planning to build a store...
...lower Colorado was as productive (if irrigated) as California's famed Imperial Valley. It might compete with California's cotton and vegetable crop. South Texas raises high-grade citrus fruit and is closer than California to Eastern U.S. markets. California would like to stop that irrigation leak...
...report before it went to Congress. And Henry Morgenthau was mightily put out because Byrnes had not consulted him on the tax proposals. In retaliation. Jimmy Byrnes's enemies began circulating the story that it was he who had let the famed "Clear it with Sidney" crack leak out during the Presidential campaign. Meanwhile, Sam Rosenman was reportedly sulking in his tent, sorry he ever left his New York judgeship to take up residence in the White House...
Injected into a man's veins, purified dextran has plasma's ability to combat shock by maintaining the volume of blood in the veins. The dextran molecules are too large to leak out readily through capillary walls, and at the same time they attract water, hold it in the blood...
...deluge had set in. It seemed unlikely that businesslike Manager Sewell could set the house in order again. His none-too-robust pitching staff had sprung a major leak: Bob Muncrief (12-7), out with elbow trouble. The team's only outstanding player, 23-year-old Shortstop Verne Stephens, led the League in runs batted in (91) and home runs (17), but not even the most hopeful St. Louisans thought Stephens alone could turn the tide...