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Johny Kelly gets away from the mark like a flash, after a lunch of sugar, Every mile or so he takes a pill form his little bottle and stokes himself. His bodily machine going under forced oxygen draft with an almost diabetic supply of fuel, he returns to the Athens of America only a few minutes behind the non-Biochemical Finn, Komonen...
During the three years Admiral William Veazie Pratt was Chief of Naval Operations and thus No. 1 professional in the service, he had to swallow many a bitter pill. The London Treaty (1930) put the Navy's future into a diplomatic straitjacket. In the name of peace and disarmament, President Hoover whittled away at its appropriation year after year, almost brought its building program to a standstill. It was Admiral Pratt's grim duty to stand by and watch the U. S. fleet (except for capital ships) dwindle from supposed parity with Great Britain to actual inferiority...
...good results obtained with it, its low toxicity, and the absence of danger, or at least of 'practical danger,' of habituation to it." One dose contains one-quarter grain codeine and one-quarter grain papaverine.* Dosages vary with a cold victim's weight from one pill after breakfast and two at bedtime to one pill after each meal and four at bedtime. This dosage has cured colds in 75 out of 100 people, says Dr. Diehl. His cures include the 35 out of 100 who would recover from a cold with no treatment whatsoever. This high percentage...
...short, when the child doctors develop more than their usual discrimination between such samples of real life as are set before them, they will end by spilling the sugar coating on the wrong pill. It is possible, to be sure, that the sugaring may be abandoned, and criticism of the cinema as art, good or bad, heartily compounded. Only this would be the proper purge for Hollywood greensickness. But the hope is quixotic; the educators' idea will probably have two very different outcomes. First, vast sums will be squandered on equipment which will enable the schools to show their...
...disputed Article VIII: "If retail groups can fix prices at ... cost plus 10%," reasoned Mr. Percy, "they may logically raise the margin to 15%, 25% or even higher. The adoption of such a principle . . . will choke the free flow of commerce and shrink volume. . . . Sugar coating the price-fixing pill by the phrase 'to insure that labor costs shall be at least partially covered' does not alter the economic fact nor the bad social consequences...