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...least 60% of doctors do not treat alcoholics in any shape or form. ¶ Municipal hospitals, when they admit drunks, treat them with indifference, sober them up, try to get rid of them as quickly as possible (usually in less than 24 hours). Most private hospitals bar them...
...rid itself of wartime controls as a giant might escape from a straitjacket-roaring, ripping and kicking, with little regard for himself or the bystanders. Nevertheless, Gulliver, freed, defeated most of the Blefuscudians -the shortages of foods & goods. And the great drop in Government spending ($45 billion less than in 1945) was made up by private spending. U.S. retail sales reached a record of $96 billion; $105 billion was poured out in wages & salaries, and net corporate profits totaled an estimated $12 billion, some 20% more than 1944's record high. Farmers raised the most profitable crop in history...
Senator George (D-Ga) joined in Vandenberg's proposal to call the Rio conference. He told an interviewer he believes "perhaps the State Department has been putting too much emphasis" on Argentina's obligations first to get rid of pro-Nazi elements...
Vandenberg returned by plane today with Secretary of State Byrnes who made it clear in a valedictory address from the same platform that he favors no change in the policy. Byrnes declared there must first be "reasonable and substantial compliance by Argentina with its obligations" to get rid of Nazi influence...
...ever turned up, there are such diverse articles there now as an old mortarboard, several neckties, and an assortment of sweaters, aigrette lighters and cases. "Last year we had a kitten in here, but no one ever claimed it," Miss Delano confides, "so we finally had to get rid of the thing...