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...whom they no longer share their lives. And while admitting the possibility of ex-husbands' reducing their separated wives' allowances from convenience rather than necessity, I thoroughly deplored the legal precedent which had kept 130 men in a New York City jail because they were unable to maintain irate wives...
Beginning this week anyone may buy all the good red liquor that his physician honestly believes he needs to maintain the patient's health. Before prescribing, the physician must give the patient a "careful physical examination." But if such examination is "impractical," the physician may prescribe "upon the best information obtainable a 3O-day, or in special cases, a 90-day supply...
...obligations are issued and their own internal obligations. On their internal obligations they have a right to tax the people until the issue is out of existence, almost." Heartless Contracts. Here & there in the U. S.. stern voices were raised to the effect that the Government ought to maintain international good faith by paying foreign holders of its bonds the equivalent of gold in paper dollars. But when May payments on billions & billions of dollars worth of public and private debt fell due at home last week, there was no real complaint against the nationwide default on the "gold...
...preening itself to become the home of all Navy LTA. since the Navy had announced that the station at Lakehurst would be decommissioned "in the near future." With the Akron gone, the Los Angeles in dead storage, the Macon already assigned to Sunnyvale, the Navy could not afford to maintain the eastern base. Besides the sugarloaf dock at Sunnyvale, a huge landscaped oval encompasses some 40 lesser structures: a helium repurification plant, a 2,000,000-cu. ft. helium tank (like a city gas tank), two other tanks each holding 2,000,000 cu. ft. under pressure; a locomotive shed...
...engines for propulsion, three auxiliary engines for operation of equipment. One of the three generates current for the radio when the ship is resting on land or water. (The control car is shaped like a boat.) Another engine operates a blower to force air into the envelope and help maintain its shape. The third drives a windlass for lowering and raising a sub-cloud car. The sub-cloud car, streamlined and camouflaged to blend into an overcast sky, can be lowered 1,000 ft. below the ship for observation and photography. A telephone wire runs through the core...