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...doctors and volunteers in Cuba, headed by Dr. Walter Reed, allowed themselves to be bitten by infected mosquitoes, proved Dr. Carlos Finlay's contention (announced in 1881) that yellow fever was carried by Aedes aegypti. A few years later, by draining and oiling swamps, Dr. William Crawford Gorgas rid Panama of yellow fever, reduced malaria, made possible the building of the Canal...
Though Congress needed no encouraging yoicks, the press joined in with rousing view halloos. The usually mild-mannered Columnist Raymond Clapper set the pace. Said he: "Half the trouble around [OCD] could be got rid of if the President would haul [Mrs. Roosevelt] out of the place . . . There is hesitation in Congress about saying much because nobody wants to criticize the wife of the President. But this is public business and very important public business. ... It is incredible that President Roosevelt will allow this situation to continue much longer. It has become a public scandal. How can you have...
...might be argued that if we get rid of the superior minds in criticism, then there is no chance for an improvement of the admittedly poor standards of the motion picture industry. But that isn't so. A critic who is so far above and apart from his audience that he doesn't think in the same terms isn't going to accomplish anything at all in improving the quality of what they're getting...
These two attempts should at least give M.G.M. a passing grade for effort. They tried, and the failed--horribly. But when it came to Nelson Eddy--the poor man's Great Stone Face--no one even tried to get rid of him; if you can think of an excuse for that, you belong in Hollywood yourself. The only time he's even passable is when, for some strange reason, he saunters around trying to look like an anemic Chaliapin; he's better then mainly because the more he looks like someone else, the less he looks like Nelson Eddy...
...cellulose-walled cells of all plants. It makes wood woody, constitutes about 25% (by weight) of the coniferous trees from which most paper is made. From the vats of U.S. mills every day are drained some 12,000,000 gallons of lignin waste. Papermen find it harder to get rid of than old razor blades. It is often poured into streams-a practice now forbidden in some States because the lignin absorbs free oxygen from the water, asphyxiates fish. Where stream pollution is forbidden, lignin wastes are now bothersomely and expensively dehydrated and burned-except at a few enterprising...