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Expecting a large turnout of independent voters for the presidential election, Dean Landis hopes for a clear majority in favor of Plan E. In 1938, the plan was rejected by the slim margin of 1,760 votes...
After one of Cambridge's bitterest political rows in recent history, Plan E was rejected in a 1933 referendum by the slim margin of 1,767 votes out of the 46,292 votes cast...
...retail markup, a 4 to 20% discount for large purchases besides. Under this scheme Council members could buy $1 liquor from the distiller for as little as 80?, resell it for $1.40, while their operating costs averaged less than 20? a bottle. When the distillers suggested a smaller margin, the Council said "no," even talked about...
...bulk of chiropodic practice consists of corn trimming. Last week Podiatrists James S. Bowman and Robert E. Fowler of Temple University School reported a new way of removing corns by injection. They inject solutions of a bismuth compound or salt water or even sterile water around the margin of the corn, thus choking off the tiny blood vessels which feed it. After several injections, the corn dissolves. This treatment, they cautioned, is still in an experimental stage...
...tried choking off a human tumor. For his subject he chose a 76-year-old man with a large funguslike growth on his cheek, just in front of his ear. Working with Dr. Allen, Surgeon Robert Emery Brennan gave the patient a local anesthetic, punctured the skin around the margin of the tumor, passed rubber ligatures through these openings and tied off the arteries that supplied the tumor with blood. After an hour and a half, when the tumor had darkened slightly, the ligatures were untied...