Word: clauses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conquered Belgians. Hero was the original Tarzan, big, soft-looking Elmo Lincoln, playing a blacksmith into whose custody the captured Kaiser (Rupert Julian) was given after the War. The late Lon (Man of a Thousand Faces) Chaney played walrus-whiskered Admiral von Tirpitz, as mild-looking a Santa Claus as ever ordered an ocean liner spurlos versenkt (sunk without trace...
Tickled pink were Flemingtonians. Not only was their personal property rate for State and county lowered but their town tax almost disappeared-shrank from $1.15 to 10?. Santa Claus had come to town out of season. The good word got around. Great Western Sugar Co. (assets: $82,402,000) heard it, blinked at the 67? tax rate, pulled up stakes in Plainfield. Into Judge Large's office, a block from the courthouse, went Great Western's new safe and papers-and the place got crowded...
...THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS! You, men and women of America are the suckers who filled up the stockings of profiteers, propagandists and foreign politicos with your own blood-your own brain-your own money! . . . WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO FILL THEM WITH THIS TIME? With the flesh of your wives? With the bowels of your children...
Vitamin C. While conning statistics of a poliomyelitis epidemic in Australia last year, Bacteriologist Claus W. Jungeblut of Columbia noticed that patients with ill-balanced diets suffered far more from the disease than those who had lots of vitamin C. Dr. Jungeblut put the statistics to experimental test, by going to work on some monkeys. He dribbled small amounts of polio virus into the noses of 56 monkeys, then gave them injections of natural vitamin C. Result: 33 monkeys (59%) became mildly sick, but had no fever or paralysis. The remaining 23 "developed complete or partial paralysis of the extremities...
...peacetime financial history. The next morning as the Germans entered Poland, 1,970,000 shares (1939's daily average 720,072 shares; 1939's biggest day, 2,888,000 shares) changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange. War babies (steel, metals, aircrafts) led the advance. Bethlehem Steel, Santa Claus to many a World War I investor, zoomed 7: points (to 65), Anaconda Copper was up 4? (to 28?). Aircraft stocks all took off, registered gains of 7.5% to 18.1%. The Dow-Jones industrial average hit 135.25 (still 19.65 below the 1939 high of last January...