Word: cords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than 500 Austrians died in the civil war which Nazis started in Styria Province at the signal of a bullet fired into heroic little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss' spinal cord (TIME, Aug. 6). Last week the new Government of stern, thrifty Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg took the amazing step of compelling one man to pay the entire cost of Styria's civil...
...Philadelphia zealous Temple University's zealous Professor John Albert Kolmer injected into the brains of monkeys virus which had originally come from the spinal cord of children who had died of infantile paralysis. The monkeys promptly developed infantile paralysis. Professor Kolmer killed them, pulled out their spinal cords, ground them up with sodium ricinoleate. The resultant vaccine he injected into more monkeys, which thereupon withstood all efforts to infect them with infantile paralysis virus...
...Thomas' last challenger. . . . The next morning Charles E. Nicholson, the designer, came to see me about a new mast. He left with an order for a challenger. . . . Endeavour goes well to windward and in a jump of sea. . . . What about her chances? How long is a piece of cord...
...appeared in a uniform of snow white silk from head to feet. Around his waist was a broad black and silver sash from which hung a red leather holster and a golden dirk of honor. From a shoulder strap to the top button of his tunic ran a golden cord. A black pearl pin ornamented his cravat. On his left breast blazed decorations headed by the Pour le Merite order. The Premier stood out from the brown background of his followers like a silver swan. His smile glittered like gold...
...share). In 1929 Auburn stock hit $14. Last week it was down to $6, an alltime low. A speculative favorite during the early years of Depression, it gyrated between 84 and 295 in 1931, sold above 150 even in 1932. Out of Auburn stock President Errett Lobban Cord reaped the quick fortune which put him into aviation, shipbuilding. ¶Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston last week filed with the Federal Trade Commission for registration under the Securities Act, a $35,000,000 coupon note issue, biggest since the Act was passed. Proceeds were to be used...