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...general practitioners can recognize the early signs of cancer when they see them. But they have been taught - as the Women's Field Army is out to teach women - to suspect the possibilities of cancer when a sore refuses to heal; when a lump forms in any part of the body, particularly the breast; when the uterus bleeds persistently or irregularly...
...Just before an examination it is legitimate to take some stimulant. ... It is certain that lump sugar gives almost immediate physical energy. Experiments show that alcohol in any form gives immediate energy followed by a period of depression greater than and lasting twice as long as the stimulation. A highball or cocktail is all right as a stimulant for a ten-minute interview but is worthless in preparing for a two-hour examination...
...pension plan went into effect, were $4.96, of which he paid 5? as the Social Security tax. For his pension, he claimed 32% of his total wages since the plan went into effect. This figures out as 17?, or a profit of 12?. Asking for it in a "lump sum," Motorman Ackerman announced: "I'll blow it on my friends...
Portentous was his budget in 1933 cutting Government expenses by $360,000,000, his budget in 1934 proposing to spend $10,000,000,000 for priming the pump, his budget in 1935 asking a lump sum of $4,000,000,000 for him to spend as he wished on Relief, his budget in 1936 when he proclaimed, "Our policy is succeeding...
...disseminating information and supplies in 42 states. U. S. customs officials promptly confiscated the pessaries under the Tariff Act of 1930. That law is the result of a Federal statute which the late gorilla-like prude, Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), rammed down Congress' throat in 1873. These statutes lump contraceptives with abortifacients, smutty writings and lewd picture postcards as "obscene," and forbid anyone to import, mail or ship them across state boundaries...