Word: 1900s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boyd began his career in the early 1900s, selling typewriters. He later opened an office-supply business in Muskegon, Mich., and was that city's first Ford dealer. In 1928 he invested in the Mount Forest Fur Farms of America, which raised muskrats. The company went bankrupt in 1931. He helped reorganize the failed firm as Vermilion Bay, and the company struck it rich when oil and gas were later discovered on the Louisiana muskrat farm. Vermilion now collects royalties on 60,000 acres of land in Louisiana. Last year the company had profits of $1.6 million on sales...
...dramatic changes in the practice of medicine during Thomas's lifetime are the focus of the book. When his father, also a doctor, practiced medicine in the early 1900s, few doctors profitted financially and most felt helpless because they couldn't cure patients. Medical schools focused on diagnosis, the art--and as Thomas describes it, it was an art--of determining an ailment from a few external symptoms. They learned how to recognize illnesses without being able to treat them...
...only have the tools at the doctor's disposal changed, but so has the doctor-patient relationship. In the early 1900s, a doctor was primarily a comforter, someone who stayed at the side of the patient and tried to guide him through his illness. More than anything, the doctor's function was the "laying on of hands," the handling and touching of the patient in an effort to provide much needed attention...
Critics of the asbestos industry charge that the mineral's harmful effects were first documented in the early 1900s and that evidence of its health hazards grew steadily over the next five decades. Asbestos-related illnesses, however, often take 20 to 40 years to develop. Thus asbestos victims were not diagnosed in large numbers until the late 1960s...
Gerald Gutierrez's adroit direction prevents the basic plot-line of a jockey's love for an heiress from ever dragging. He adds dimensions to the characters, allowing them to transcend their early 1900s conventions. Goldie Gates, the madcap heiress from San Francisco (Maureen Brennan), trails her love, Johnny Jones (Donny Osmond), across a continent and an ocean, not out of subservience, but from a need to fulfill her own desires. She appears to us as assertive intelligent, and independent...