Word: americans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Rupert Brandon Raney of the University of Southern California's medical school reported "a hitherto undescribed surgical procedure relieving attacks of angina pectoris." Eleven patients, said Dr. Raney, underwent this remarkable operation. There were "no deaths, and all ... obtained complete relief . . . from desperate attacks" sometimes occurring as often as ten times...
...last week Professor Rugg and Professor Wilson (now on the faculty of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and editor of a series of social studies texts published by American Book Co.) had patched up their feud. Both contributed to the National Council's new book...
...Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson got up a National Defense Power Committee on which the New Deal's very power-minded Corcoran-Cohen organization was also represented. Mr. Johnson rounded up the topflight utility bosses (one of whom, white-mustached, aristocratic Hobart Porter of American Water Works, once used him as a Washington lawyer), got them to pledge to invest up to $1,000,000,000 a year on war emergency plant in 1939 and 1940. One power executive remarked: "They wanted ballyhoo and we gave it to them." Less than $500,000,000 was actually spent...
...Moore-McCormack the deal was even better. Under U. S. Government charter and direct ownership the firm operates American Republics Line's passenger-freight service to South America. For that line, by late 1940, Moore-McCormack will have 14-$40,000,000 worth-new 9,000-to 12,000-ton, 16½-to 18-knot passenger-freight ships, constructed under the Maritime Commission's program for rebuilding the U. S. merchant marine. Seven of the new ships have already been launched. Faced with the loss of its Scandinavian-Baltic trade (American Scantic Line) for the duration...
Newest promotion of the National Sausage Casing Dealer's Association (heartily accepted by the Institute of American Meat Packers): the turkeyfurter, or hot turk. Its ingredients: one part smoked turkey, one part veal, one part pork, plus breadcrumbs, thyme, sage, an emulsion of turkey fat and broth, all stuffed (like brother hot dog) into sheep casings. Its economics: price 37? to 41? a Ib. in bulk (about 10? above best frankfurters), to retail at 15? each, complete with cranberry sauce and roll...