Word: bells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Communist Dictator Stalin means to continue the Moscow trials & executions, which have been going on since 1928, was suggested last week by the closing summary of Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky. "Let your sentence, Comrade Judges, resound as a bell calling for new victories!" he cried. "Crush the accursed vipers . . . foul dogs . . . disgusting villains...
...lack of a beneficial agent which did not get in. A Dutchman, Christian Eijkman, found that chickens which ate nothing but polished rice developed beriberi, but that if the chickens ate the rice coatings they got better. For a quarter century Dr. Robert Runnels Williams of Bell Telephone Laboratories labored to extract the mysterious "vitamin" from rice coatings, finally squeezed 1/6 oz. from a ton of raw material. Later Vitamin B 1 , as it is now called, was synthesized. The synthetic vitamin is also known as thiamin chloride...
...season on paper. In contrast with the other circuit nines. Harvard has most of its last year's lettermen back on the roster. Pennsylvania and Cornell will probably continue to be the woak sisters while Princeton and Yale will be seriously hampered by the loss of their best hurlers, Bell and Horton...
Last week A. T. & T. stock was selling for around $135 on the New York Stock Exchange, having broken sharply from its recent 1938 high of $149.75 (T937 high: $187). Noting this and also that Bell Telephone Co. of Canada, which last year earned only $7.72 a share was last week selling at $161, the New York Times remarked: "Investors weighing the proper market value of a particular security presumably also consider political situations as well...
...floor of the New York Stock Exchange one morning this week the gong bonged as usual at 10 a. m., opening the day's trading. Slowly the ticker tapped out the first sale-100 shares of Lehman Corp. at $25.50 per share. The market was dull. Suddenly the bell rang again, bringing trading to a sharp halt. As a man the hushed brokers turned toward the rostrum to hear an astounding announcement: the firm of Richard Whitney & Co. was unable to meet its obligations...