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...completely. Down to the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank he marched, drew out some $2,500,000 in cash and Government bonds, leaving only the $639,700 legally required as backing for his $5,806,463 deposits. Then he stuffed the $2,500,000 into safety deposit boxes in two Loop banks. Blustered he: "Now the politician will have to think up a new idea before he can get his hands on this money." Reason Banker Nichols can do anything he likes at his bank to make headlines is that he inherited 60% of its 2,000 shares from his father...
...spent an hilarious Saturday night. Of Amos, the spokesman for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reported : "He was probably the drunkest duck I ever saw. He would stand up on the bar and quaff a foaming beaker and then go bouncing . . . into a ground loop, skid off the bar, and tailspin to the floor." Protested Owner Green: "I'm training this little duck for a movie career. He's as smart as they come, but a little bit shy. So I take him along with me to let him mix and get used...
...positive print of such an x-ray film may be cemented into a loop in a projector and run over and over to show a roomful of observers precisely how the patient breathes, throbs, swallows, belches...
...Brothers Goldblatt arrived on State Street is a none too happy incident in the corporate history of Marshall Field. On State Street, at the southern edge of the Loop where cheaper stores congregate, used to stand the Davis Store. Field's bought it in 1923 for $9,000,000. Unfortunately, shoppers who wanted bargains chose to patronize Field's basement rather than the Davis Store. And shoppers who could afford quality goods would not be caught in the Davis Store on a bet. After ups and downs and changes of management, Davis lost, all told, some...
...like appendages, the usual problem is to correct the vagina if it is rudimentary, or to create one if it is missing. The late Dr. L. Grant Baldwin of Columbus, Ohio, solved this difficult problem by cutting a channel into the pelvis, lining it with a narrow U-shaped loop of the patient's own intestine. After some time the inner loop of the U was removed, leaving the outer wall to form a mucous membranal tract resembling the normal vagina...