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During the last five years conditions in Liberia have been salt in the wounds of the State Department. The British objected that the rats in Monrovia were so bad that bubonic plague was prevented from spreading through West Africa only by the fact that it had no harbor in which ships could dock; that a smallpox epidemic ravaged the interior; that the simplest health measures were unknown and Liberia might become a focus of infection for all Africa. This the U. S. State Department could believe. In 1929 U. S. Minister William Treyanne Francis died there of yellow fever...
...release after payment of $200,000 ransom (TIME, June 10), Chief Hoover had issued a serial number list of the ransom bills, put 100 of his agents on the kidnappers' trail. Within a few days 30 of the bills had turned up in Utah banks, been traced to Salt Lake City stores. A local detective was waiting when, one week to a day after the kidnapped boy's release, a short, brown-haired woman walked into a Salt Lake City 5-&-10? store, made a small purchase. At the cashier's cage her $5 bill was quickly...
...substances to keep it in a clear, unclotted, fluid condition. Thus gallons of blood may be accumulated from donors, kept in a refrigerator until needed for a transfusion. The other helpful procedure is venoclysis, the slow drop-by-drop introduction into a vein, through a hollow needle, of a salt or a sugar solution, which a patient needs to support his strength, to nourish or to cure him. A sterile container for such solutions, to be administered by venoclysis, is now a customary part of operating room equipment. If an operation is going to cause great loss of blood...
Worst joke: "I'm St. Peter's brother, Salt Peter." Best tune: "Let's Swing...
...gold spike with which Leland Stanford joined the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads in 1869. In the Ford Bowl was playing the San Diego Symphony, to be followed throughout the summer by orchestras from Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and the 250-voiced Mormon Tabernacle Choir from Salt Lake-City. Mexico had again sent north its Monte Alban Mayan treasures. But the real fun was, as usual, to be had on the Midway...