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...prepare universal blood, they add a few milligrams of A and B powders to each pint of type O. These added A and B crystals are strong enough to destroy the anti-A and anti-B factors. The neutralized blood can be used immediately, in hospital or battlefield, for all transfusions. The doctors have used the powders successfully in over 100 cases at Buffalo General Hospital, have already sent a supply to London...
...Senate passed a bill last week which 1) made sense, 2) overjoyed a lot of people (and one pint-sized algebra teacher), 3) cost a mere $20,000,000. This sensational measure, which the House is expected to approve speedily, aroused no controversy at all. The paragon bill simply permitted the U.S. to pay two-thirds of the construction cost of unfinished sections of the Inter-American Highway between Mexico and Panama. The Governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama will pay the other third...
Model Menu. For good health, the Conference urged citizens of all ages to eat the following foods every day: "One pint of milk for an adult and more for a child; a serving of meat . . . one egg or some suitable substitute such as navy beans; two vegetables, one of which should be green or yellow; two fruits, one of which should be rich in vitamin C, found abundantly in citrus fruits and tomatoes; breads, flour and cereal, most or preferably all whole grain or enriched; some butter or oleomargarine with vitamin A added; other foods to satisfy the appetite." With...
...when Abbott let his pint-sized brother-in-law, a Florida lawyer, take over (1926), the Defender started down the skids. Livelier competitors (the Baltimore Afro-American and Pittsburgh Courier) grabbed a lot of Defender circulation with pictures of barer brownskin and high yaller gals, more chest-thumping against race discrimination. The Defender staff had to be harshly shaken up. The brother-in-law, bounced at last, sued the now-ailing Abbott for $85,000. Mrs. Abbott No. 1 won an expensive divorce suit. Abbott put his favorite nephew in charge of the paper. The Defender went from...
...Pint-sized Charles ("Rabbit") McVeigh came home from World War I hard of hearing and full of fight. Like many another Canadian, he turned to U. S. hockey for a living. A star forward, the scrappy little fellow made a name for himself as a rough-&-tumble player, who never minded how big they came. Some time ago National Hockey League Linesman McVeigh, fractious as ever, called a close one on the Detroit Red Wings. Up streaked burly Ebbie Goodfellow, Red Wings captain, to give the umpire a piece of his mind. Calmly eying the big man hovering over...