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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When they warn children against sweets, doctors and dentists act on an old hunch that there is some relationship between diet and dental caries (tooth decay). Last week at a meeting of the First District Dental Society of the State of New York, two brothers, Lieutenant Leland James Belding, a Navy physician, and Paul H. Belding, a Waucoma, Ia. dentist, claimed to have confirmed the belief that diet and caries are related. Backing their conclusions with a mass of laboratory detail gathered over a period of twelve years, they declared that the cause of caries was not candy but certain...
...most delicate and stubborn surgical problems is the relief of pain in childbirth. Injection of synthetic, cocaine-like drugs, such as novocain and procaine, into the canal of the spinal cord is objectionable because such injections act on the cord and brain, interfere with the heart. Anesthetics such as ether and nitrous oxide (laughing gas) are harmful because they cause a deficiency of oxygen in the blood streams of mother and child...
...union's contract for the settling of disputes by negotiation, hence lacked union sanction. Steadfastly L.M.S. refused: 1) to remove Gwilliams, because such action might set a precedent for "further unconstitutional action"; 2) to make him rejoin the union, since intimidation is frowned upon by the Trade Disputes Act. With the odds thus heavily against it the strike last week collapsed. Back to work went the 4,000, each, a week's pay out of pocket. Still on the job was Gwilliams, who through it all had kept his head screwed on, his pence in his pocket...
...unprecedented in U. S. railroad history. Before Depression I railroads went through reorganization much as a snake sheds its skin, with bondholders forced to split the loss with stockholders and with railroads often left in just as bad a fix when the shedding was over. After the Federal Bankruptcy Act was amended in 1933 to give ICC power to supervise or rewrite reorganization plans and to allow roads to continue operating with their debts in a sort of suspended animation (Section 77), there came a complete cessation of reorganizations. For nearly five years, although nearly a third of the nation...
...Cities Service Co.'s $241,000,000 annual gross revenue is derived not from oil operations but from selling electricity in 20 States from Connecticut to Washington. Because of its power & light subsidiaries, Cities Service falls under SEC jurisdiction via Section II of the Public Utility Holding Company Act, variously described as the "death," "health" or "life sentence" (TIME, Oct. 24), requiring utilities to reorganize into geographically integrated systems...