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...Goetz method, while drinkable, still has a high proportion of salts (e.g., about 4% of sodium citrate), has to be mixed with peppermint oil to kill the bad taste. The two Navy chemists- Lieut. William V. Consolazio and Lieut, (j.g.) Claire R. Spealman -claim that their process gets rid of all but a trace of salt (less than half of 1% sodium chloride) and produces water more palatable, more healthful than Goetz...
...advisability of point-to-point appeared when the San Francisco telephone exchange, short of telephones and help, wanted to get rid of the longshoremen's telephone load (some 225 work gangs average 16 men apiece). Twice a day, for five minutes only, KYA now transmits such information as: "Gangs 15 and 75 report to pier...
...Subsidies discourage initiative because they remove the powerful incentive that any businessman (or farmer) has to keep going somehow. )- Subsidies breed more' subsidies. Said Albert S. Goss, getting his potent National Grange on the anti-subsidy record: "Having once established subsidies how are we ever going to get rid of them?" Others extended this point: as subsidies are applied to more & more products, consumers will save money by paying fixed prices, but this saving will be canceled by the higher taxes they must then...
...hateful of all gremlins. He sneaks in silently, and than you hear him laughing hollowly in the back of the instrument. You open it to look for him, but by that time he isn't there. You wish he'd come back so you could find him and get rid of him. He won't, though, at least not until you've got everything put back together again...
...have proved its point: that a good deal of soap opera time is wasted. The Blue, when it was NBC's second string network, produced one of radio's first network soap operas (Little Orphan Annie) in 1931. After it was separated from NBC, the Blue got rid of its four sponsored soaps and looked around for something to replace them. Since then it has concentrated on music, variety, comic and children's daytime programs-trying to build different kinds of shows to pull the soapy diehards away from its competitors. If the Blue's survey...