Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...establishment of a government market for gold has more significance than appears on the surface. It is the American substitute for the British exchange stabilization fund. It is hoped to correct wide fluctuations in gold exchange by buying and selling the metal. The administration wants to achieve stability so that price rises in domestic products due to the NRA and the agricultural adjustment act will not be interfered with by gyrations in the unit of value...
...member of the Bacardi family and as the representative of the company in the U. S. of America, I beg to correct certain statements and comments which you have published. You refer to 16 living grandchildren and their various null as liking to have hand in running the Santiago distillery and say that "as soon as a distributor was certain he had landed the agency, he would discover that another Bacardi was dickering with another distributor." This is far from the truth as all negotiations were handled directly with the president of the company or with the undersigned...
...driver. The tempo of modern life causes the frontal lobe to drive the adrenals at too fast a pace. The adrenals overwork, and cause the thyroid to lose more power than the body can stand. Follows goiter, diabetes, peptic ulcer, heart ailments. Reasoned Dr. Crile, "If this interpretation is correct, then this entire group of neurogenic diseases should be abated or cured by removal of the thyroid, when the disease is in the thyroid group; by denervation of the adrenals when the disease is in other groups, while in a small group both thyroid-removal and adrenal-denervation should abate...
...should order your Tokyo correspondent to send you more correct news from this part of the world. In these days of delicate feeling between America and Japan such reports as this one I have criticized may do much harm. To make your correspondent realize the enormity of his offense-I suggest that you dock his next honorarium a substantial amount and apply the same to extend my subscription to TIME-so that I may go on indefinitely enjoying your magazine-even though I cannot now be sure that the fascinatingly entertaining accounts of affairs from various parts of the world...
Historians rarely reconstruct a world convincingly: their models may be correct to the last detail but the clockwork that runs them is modern. Really moving pictures of the past are made not by scholarship but by imagination. Authoress Waddell has resurrected the famed love-affair of Heloise and Abelard not simply by the dusting and patching of documents but by putting together many a vanished two and two. The result, as any reader may verify without benefit of historical knowledge. seems historically true. And though its horizon is ringed with the theological thunder of that far-off day, its medieval...