Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snooty Reminder. Canton's municipal government, creaking and groaning under an extra load created by the mushrooming population (already estimated at more than 1,600,000), was on the verge of complete breakdown. Electricity was sometimes on, sometimes off; tap water was black and brackish; the city's tiny, overworked fire department screamed up & down streets until its sirens threatened to drown out the busy whistles of the gaily bannered river steamers. On Saturday, one of the bantam-sized fire trucks struck and killed a young woman pedestrian in front of the Oikwan. As it roared on toward...
Cerebral palsy is caused by certain unexplained variations in brain structure, or by a breakdown in the brain motor centers from an injury before or during birth. Having no control over certain muscles, severe cases are often unable to perform such simple functions as speaking, walking, or feeding themselves. Cerebral palsy cannot be cured. The best that can be done is to train other parts of the brain to take over the duties normally performed by the injured or missing section...
Merrill Lynch boosted its business by going after the small investor in its 98 offices throughout the country. Just how well it did its job was shown by the geographical breakdown on its business. The Eastern states (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New England) contributed 22.7% of the total security and commodity business; the Southeastern states, 22.1%; the Middle West, 20.5%; the South Central, 17%, and the Western states...
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