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Show ! B R I E F S . . . by Daukhage Placements of physically handicapped handi-capped persons by the United States Employment service may total nearly a half-million in 1944. Because of the disruption of rail facilities by the fighting in southern south-ern France, American-made trucks are being shipped to Europe for the transportation of prisoner-of-war parcels. Curare, a deadly poison that native na-tive Indians of the Amazon called "flying death" because they usea it to make poison arrows, is now saving sav-ing lives of the fighting men of United Nations, the office of the coordinator co-ordinator of Inter-American affairs reports. Curare is now used to relieve re-lieve spastic paralysis and to rel.ix the muscles of mental patients undergoing convulsive shock. |