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...have got by this fearful winter! There is no longer any doubt that the central and state governments can maintain complete order. Confidence in this fact is the basis for the revival in our industry" (German stocks & bonds were upping as he spoke...
...object of the Government is not to provoke an artificial quotation of the peseta but to maintain control of the market and avoid fluctuations. . . . Nothing was decided regarding the rate at which stabilization will be effected. . . . On fixing the limit, which Parliament will have to approve, it will have to be arranged that there will be no upset in individual or collective fortunes...
...heart disease can be helped by keeping the patient in atmosphere of 40% to 50% oxygen, reported Dr. Alvan Leroy Barach of Manhattan.* The excess oxygen increases the amount of blood the heart pumps each beat and thus aids the flow of blood through hardened arteries, or it helps maintain circulation when the heart is jolted by a blood clot plugging a blood vessel. The oxygen treatment relieves shortness of breath, lowers pulse rate, improves appetite, aids elimination of body poisons. It does not help tuberculosis of the lungs...
...sets forth a sane method of logic. But the meat of the book comes when he asks & answers this crucial question: "How can we as business men, within the areas for which we are responsible, best meet the needs of the American people, most nearly approximate supplying their wants, maintain profits, handle problems of unemployment, face the Russian challenge, and at the same time aid Europe and contribute most to or disturb least the cause of International Peace...
...students listed their charges against their president as follows: "Autocratic," "domineering," he had demanded that athletes maintain a higher stand than their fellows. "For no particular reason" he had dismissed three of their favorite professors. He had held up the building of W. & J.'s much-wished-for stadium. He had made "childish" rules about clothing, such as forbidding corduroy trousers...