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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with scarlet fever, her husband was ready to go ahead with an operation on the Trammell infant. After a 54-hr. study of the case Dr. Dandy began the operation, which lasted two hours, through the side of the child's head. He found that he need not construct a by-pass for the cerebro-spinal fluid. Sufficient was removal of an obstruction between the lateral ventricles, cavities of the brain which lie in the region of the temples. His report to the public: "The baby came out of the ether all right, and is taking her feeding nicely...
...present undiscriminating drive against public utility rates is calculated to interfere with business expansion and to slow down recovery by reducing the profit of these corporations and therefore their ability to secure money to construct extensions to and replacements of their existing plants. Although the C.W.A. recovery program is useful at the present moment to help get things going, it is, of course, a temporary measure, and by its extensive borrowing merely increases the burden upon the profits of future industry for years to come...
...London, Amsterdam, Geneva and even Berlin. The Deputies pointed to the Bank of France gold reserves of nearly 80 billion francs and contended that the drain of 100 million francs a day could continue for at least another month before becoming "dangerous." This would give time, they remarked, to construct more Cabinets and "find a real majority...
...laid to the contractors or to some defective materials which they used. So far, no conclusive evidence has been received which would in any way determine the cause of the present trouble. Whether it was undue economy, on the part of the University in an effort to construct the houses and other buildings as cheaply as possible or whether the Houses were a victim of the boom year construction so frequently found in work of that period when buildings were put up as fast and as cheaply as possible at the expense of durability and other qualities which would make...
...Institute was not built upon "made" land, as was the Business School nor was it completed in a hurried fashion as was necessary in the case of the Business School, in which modern engineering gave way to modern architecture in an effort to construct the plant as quickly and as cheaply as possible. Careful investigation is understood to reveal that the trouble may be laid to possible improper inspection and supervision of the contractors by the University or architectural authorities...