Word: ares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at the annual Pittsburgh meeting of the Air Hygiene Foundation, the beaming Clarks exhibited two of their brood of 85 windowed rabbits. In one rabbit's ear were tiny black specks of silica dust, which had been dropped into the raw tissue last June. Purpose of the...
Such ear-slitting, said Eliot and Eleanor Clark last week, is no more painful than piercing for old-fashioned earrings. The rabbits are placid and happy, wear warm grey flannel pajamas, take vacations in Europe, occasionally feast on ice cream and cake.
U. S. railwaymen who are proud of their prestige breathed freely last week for the first time since the middle of October. They felt safer because their business was falling off-weekly carloadings were down from October's peak of 861,198 to 785,901. The slump spelled no...
Meanwhile Continental Illinois did better than it had agreed in buying back the RFC preferred: in 1936, $5,000,000; in 1937, $10,000,000; in 1938, $10,000,000 more. Continental Illinois common shares, which sold at $60 in 1934, are now selling around $87. An interesting sidelight: Preferred...
When Margaret Farrand Thorp heard that 85,000,000 persons buy admissions every week to 17,000 movie houses in 9,000 U. S. towns & villages, she decided to find out why. She also wanted to know who the 85,000,000 are, what movies do to them and how...