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...Strong described the way to wipe out one branch of the disease, which is caused by threadlike worms that have preyed on man since before the days of the pyramids. The worms, which are known by scientists as the "family filariidae' and look like long cotton threads, live in warm climates from Charleston to the Argentine, and from Italy to Australia, and attack men, animals, birds, fish, and snakes. In man they cause the terrible swellings of limbs and other parts of the body called elephantiasis, sometimes blindness, tumors and skin eruptions. Infections received through worm attacks may cause death...
...constructed in a nefarious attempt to "wipe out the debts of the American-owned companies in the merger belonging to the Guggenheim interests...
Justification for this drastic action was seen in the fact that RKO faces a receivership unless it gets cash, that a receivership would probably wipe out the value of the common stock. No public offering of securities could be made at this time; banks have been unwilling to assist. Radio Corp., which controls RKO, has agreed to buy any unsubscribed debentures on the same terms at which they were offered. Immediate cash needs of RKO are $1,000,000 during November, $3,000,000 by Jan. 1, $3,000,000 by July 1,1932. During 1929 the company made...
...settle the cigaret controversy which has aroused many doubting Thomases to rise in defense of the "saintly" Frances Elizabeth Willard in an effort to wipe clean her nicotine-stained fingers, may I offer this tobacco episode as presented by Miss Willard herself in her autobiography, Glimpses of Fifty Years? The chapter head is "College Days," and the reference appears on pp. 116-117: ". . . I wish I had not had those months as a 'law unto myself,' though nothing worse occurred in them than I have told, except that one night Maggie and I dressed up as two pirates...
...Nicholas I of Russia, in 1849. As the elder Szalay had been a rebel, had served after his capture only to evade imprisonment, that diploma remained his "shame." To his sons he used to say, pointing to the document, "You must do something good for the Hungarian people to wipe out my disgrace...