Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grams to 809-and the whale's thyroid was more than three times as big-108 grams to 33. On the whole, therefore, the whale's organic power plant was bigger. Scientific moral: Old Mother Nature, whose selection produced Delphinapterus leucas, is a better hand at turning out an efficient biological engine than young Homo sapiens, breed he ever so artfully...
...financed through General Motors Acceptance Corp. The jury's strange verdict seemed to say that there had been a conspiracy without conspirators. But no seer was needed to guess at the jury's real meaning: that the men accused were no criminals, but the practice had better be stopped...
...ponds, into neat stacks before bark beetles and fire took their toll, the Department of Agriculture's Northeast Timber Salvage Administration went to work. By last September it had bought 600,000,000 feet of hurricane timber from some 30,000 owners for an over-all cost of better than $20 a thousand board feet, looked around for a buyer...
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 Representative Cummings, who in 1937 owned only 104 shares of his own common, reported a year later that he held 3,019 shares and today reports holdings of 5,019 shares, owns more Continental common than any other director...
Young Sebastian Bannon, who likes the sea better than Harvard Law School, ships aboard the Gloucester halibut-trawler Susan Dillon for the winter voyage, greenest of a crew of unanimous goldenhearts. Of sailing, the weathers of the winter sea, the fishing itself, physical action and hardship, he gives a rimy, brilliant account. In the best pages of the book Sebastian, lost at sea, rows his dead dory-mate 100 miles to land, his hands frozen to the oars. He and his rescuer, a young woman, are marooned on (and rescued from) a somewhat Melvilleian iceberg which mystically wanders...