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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telescope fish's gall bladder is a greenish globule one-twelfth of an inch in diameter (visible as a disk about the size of the fish's eye but not so dark-see cut}. Dr. Viehoever found that soon after he injected the most trifling amount of the hormones secretin and cholecystokinin into the fish's tail, the gall bladder contracted, and squeezed its green bile into the intestines. This is what human gall bladders normally do during digestion, what they cannot do when obstructed by gallstones or mucus plugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Helpful Fish | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...first four volumes produced the following thesis: The U. S. normally utilizes only 80% of its productive capacity, largely because only 8% of the populace have annual incomes big enough to permit purchasing more than basic essentials. That these 8% put a large amount of their money into savings instead of buying consumer goods is theoretically of no consequence since the savings are available for investment and consequent increased creation of capital goods. But for the past 20 years the volume of U. S. savings thus available for industrial expansion has exceeded the public's capacity to purchase goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The American Way | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...Between 1870 and 1936 prices came down and wages went up so that the amount of goods a wage-earner could buy with his week's wages was multiplied two and a half times, though working hours were meanwhile cut by one-third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The American Way | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...best marks in the State in plane geometry. The authors proudly display in their book the slogan over the doorway to this class : PRIZE THE DOUBT LOW KINDS EXIST WITHOUT. Less enthusiastic was one parent, who complained: "[My daughter] has become too cynical and is given to a great amount of quibbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fifty-five Authors | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...Highest price ever paid lor a thoroughbred is $300,000. Last week Martin Benson, London bookmaker, paid that amount for undefeated Xearco, an Italian horse who won the Grand Prix at Paris last fortnight, his 14th victory in a row. Only other $300,000 purchase price was for Call Boy, 1927 Epsom Derby winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Disappointment | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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