Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above each kidney, secrete two hormones-adrenalin in the cores, cortin in the hulls. One of adrenalin's effects is to draw sugar into the blood (see col. 3). The effects of cortin, a scarcer substance, are less well known. Among such effects is control of the amount of salt and water in the blood. Scarcity of cortin in the system increases the permeability of the walls of blood vessels and capillaries, permits a leakage of salty fluid from the blood...
Christian Leader: "The Sunday School children of the U. S. ought to pay the amount of that verdict with pennies...
Director of Registration Baldwin Bane came from the Federal Trade Commission, is known as a protegé of Senator Carter Glass. He it is who issues SEC's ''stop-orders," which amount to injunctions shuting off the output of new securities. Since the Securities Act of 1933 was signed, he has passed 1,124 issues, stopped...
...flights go, it did not amount to much. Miss Ingalls could have made better time, at considerably less expense and energy, by taking one of the regular transcontinental airliners. Nevertheless it was the first East-West non-stop coast-to-coast flight by a woman. Laura Ingalls left the stage to become a flyer in the wake of the Lindbergh boom. She had been by turns a vaudeville actress, Spanish dancer, graduate nurse, amateur detective. At Curtiss Field her small, helpless appearance at first evoked laughter. Later she was told she would never make a flyer. Indomitable, she kept...
...addition a tax would be imposed upon the recipient of any part of a legacy, depending upon the size of his share. Thus, if a man should leave a $10,000,000 estate to one heir there would be one high inheritance tax. If he should leave the same amount divided equally among ten heirs, there would be ten inheritance taxes, the total of the ten taxes being less than the tax on the whole $10,000,000 left to one heir...