Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...angels of whom Brooklynites dream are no veterans but two 22-year-olds: Harold ("Peewee") Reese and Harold ("Pete") Reiser. Reese, purchased from the Louisville Colonels last year (but benched with a chipped heel bone a good part of the season), is considered one of the smartest shortstops in the game. Reiser (rhymes with geezer) Drought up from Brooklyn's Elmira farm last summer, can play infield or outfield, nor does his bat sleep in his hand...
Yellow Marrow. Often large doses of sulfa drugs drain the body's reserves of white blood cells. (So does arsphenamine, the syphilis specific, and certain sedatives and painkillers.) A deficiency of white blood cells may also be caused by disease of the bone marrow, where most of them are produced. This form of blood disease, known as agranulocytosis or leukopenia, leaves the body at the mercy of any bacteria which may enter the bloodstream. For the white cells, which move about like amebae, are the body's shock troops; they gobble up invading bacteria, produce antidotes which neutralize...
Last week Dr. Harry Nicholls Holmes, head of the chemistry department at Oberlin College and president-elect of the Chemical Society, told how he had found a remedy for this fatal disease. With a group of colleagues, he had tried to find the exact chemicals in bone marrow which stimulate the production of white blood cells. After three years of tedious labor, in which they used over 200 Ib. of yellow-marrow from cattle bones, the scientists extracted about one ounce of alcohol. This they separated into two component parts: batyl alcohol and chimyl alcohol. When they examined the chemical...
...most immediate consequences of competitive bidding. The rule will denude the investment bankers of their remnant shreds of influence over utilities; but it will also make the big insurance and trust companies more formidable monopolists of the best security issues than ever. The bankers will become mere bone-fed finders of private placements. Since the insurance companies have already been put on the spot before TNEC for absorbing so huge a share of U.S. investment opportunities (TIME, March 10), SEC's new rule will doubtless hasten the day when insurance, too, will pass under Federal control. The Government...
Meanwhile, McKee never forgot that his $37,200 annual salary came from the cash register, not good will. He cut operating costs to the bone, boosted advertising to the limit. Last year his Pacific Power cleared $851,957 v. $77,105; Northwestern Electric netted $460,051 against $32,341 in 1933; Portland Gas earned $236,925 v. 1935's low of $2,333. Even so, the future of electricity in the Northwest clearly belonged to the Bonneville Power Administration. But McKee had a substitute line of goods: gas. He plugged gas for home heating, water heating, cooking and refrigeration...