Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...richest source of radium in the world is believed to have been discovered in Turkestan by a Russian Government expedition. An American syndicate, which includes Dr. C. Everett Field, President of the Radium Research Corporation, and Washington B. Vanderlip, chronic Soviet concession hunter, with four New York philanthropists as "angels," is planning to produce and distribute radium from this field at cost price. Radium manufactured from carnotite deposits in Colorado costs from $85 to $110 a milligram, or approximately $50,000,000 a pound. This has been reduced in the last two years to $70 a milligram by the exploitation...
...most actors whose parts call for an "exit laughing" is something that demands immediate attention in our theatre. Then, too, the entire company stole the Cardinal's fire-works in their mage of handkerchiefs. One would have thought that the entire court of Louis XIII was sorely afflicted with chronic catarrh if the abundance of lace handkerchiefs on and in hand Monday night was to be taken as a fair indication...
Wherever mortals and human institutions are found, do not expect perfection. The chronic fault-finder seldom considers this. Hence he is loud in his bellowing for reform...
Another reason may be that the managers of the industry in question are not smart enough to keep expenses down, or to turn out a product that will sell at a remunerative price. Undoubtedly there is a chronic dearth of managing ability of a high order. When a man is found who possesses it, it is a very fortunate thing for laborers. He can keep an industry running which, without him, could not run. That means employment instead of unemployment for a number of men. One such competent manager does more for labor than ten thousand agitators...
...proposed, would entail a minimum of grading and filling, thus insuring a low initial cost. Once built, these courts will undoubtedly provide an excellent income as do those in Jarvis Field at present. The certainly that it will be sound investment thus removes what is one of the chronic objection to the schemes of amateur reformers. In addition, courts on Soldiers Field would have the very considerable advantage that they are not, as are the Jarvis courts, within a thousand feet of any church. This fact will bring hope to the Hundreds of men who would take advantage...