Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after middle age. The only known remedy is surgery. In rats prostatic hypertrophy can be produced by stimulating the pituitary gland to overactivity. Dr. McCullagh found that by feeding his inhibin to rats this pituitary hyperfunction could be prevented. He concluded that probably prostatic hypertrophy is caused by 1) breakdown of the testicular cells producing inhibin, the absence of which 2) causes pituitary overactivity, which in turn 3) stimulates the androtin-producing cells of the gonads to sufficient activity to bring about 4) enlargement of the prostate gland. If this is true, prostatic hypertrophy can take place only when...
James William Crabtree, secretary of N. E. A. said that schools have not shown anything like "the breakdown that is shown in finance and industry. . . . Losses have been offset with . . . a gain in the morale and faith of the teaching profession...
Over the weekend Premier Herriot dashed up to Paris, talked volubly to reporters, let himself be quoted thus: "We succeeded at Lausanne in avoiding discussions of principles . . . from which an immediate breakdown of the Conference could have arisen...
...were in Fox, where Edward Richmond Tinker, long with Chase National Bank, became president to succeed Harley L. Clarke, onetime utilities tycoon. Six months later Mr. Tinker became board chairman, was succeeded a president by Sidney Kent, onetime Paramount general manager. Winfield Sheehan, who last winter suffered a nervous breakdown and was reported out of Fox, last week re turned to his job of general manager. Jesse Lasky and Adolph Zukor have lost control of Paramount to John Hertz, taxi tycoon, and Theatre Owner Sam Katz of Chicago. Last week Paramount's pro duction manager, Ben Schulberg, resigned. Joseph Kennedy...
...oilmen gathered almost daily in Room No. 2604 of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, seeking to reach an agreement by which markets could be kept steady, profitable. Last week the conference broke up without results. Secrecy hid all the conference's deliberations but reasons given for the breakdown by oilmen were numerous: 1) The Russians would make no agreement for more than three years, the defensive Englishmen and Americans sought a ten-year pact. 2) The Russians declined to limit exports to the 1931 level, refused to give up their distributing facilities in England, Germany, Spain. 3) There...