Word: cording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Surgically, sterilization is simple. In males it is achieved by cutting the spermatic cord, in females by cutting the Fallopian tubes. Frequently X-ray is used to atrophy the ovaries...
...Largest claims: Buhl Aircraft Corp., 271 midget planes for $338,750; Pitcairn Aircraft Co., 38 autogiros for $322,000. But other exhibitors, despite an epidemic of price cutting, were frankly disappointed by lack of business. As he did at last year's show in St. Louis, Errett Lobban Cord began the price-slashing by reducing his Stinson Junior by $1,000 to $4,995, to get under the five-passenger Bird. Curtiss-Wright followed by cutting its four-place sedan from $6,370 to $4,595. Both builders admitted they could not make money at the price...
...inherited disease of the brain and spinal cord; cause unknown. The victim's hands, feet and eyes wobble when he tries to use them. Until late stages of the disease, his intelligence is good...
Joseph Potter Cotton, U. S. Under Secretary of State, who has long been ill at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from an infection of the spinal cord, developed blood-poisoning in his right eye, which had to be removed...
Such reports did not dampen Mr. Cord's enthusiasm. Said he: "There has been no supporting group in this stock to my knowledge since last July. The whole activity ... is the result of what our company has been doing in the way of production. . . . Our schedule has been increased to 19,900 cars up to May i." In all 1930, only 13,000 Auburns were made. For 1931, 40,000 are predicted by Mr. Cord...