Word: developers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true hermaphrodites, which are very rare, there are glands of both sexes, either ovaries and testicles or a mixed gland called an ovario-testis. In a case which came to the attention of William Blair- Bell of England, a girl of 17 began to develop masculine characteristics. Examination disclosed an ovary on one side, an ovario-testis on the other. Eight months after the mixed gland was removed, the girl resumed her feminine appearance almost entirely...
Unable to name the weak and treacherous employes RCA is supposed to have seduced, and unwilling to specify what secrets had been purloined, Philco nevertheless wailed: "-It has required the great-skill, invention, vigilance and effort successfully to develop and maintain such a business in the face of its highly competitive nature ... and particularly the competition of RCA ... by reason of its financial power and patent monopoly " By underhanded acts, complained Philco, RCA "is seeking further to extend and strengthen its domination and control of said industry...
...resulted in petroleum products being sold below cost in some areas in order to meet unrestrained competition. . . . Price wars necessarily injure small independent marketers. . . . Therefore, I am requesting and authorizing you, as Chairman of the Marketing Committee, to designate committees for each locality when and as price wars develop, with authority to confer . . . and in a co-operative manner to stabilize the price level to conform to that normally prevailing in contiguous areas where marketing conditions are similar...
...snapped up a beer concession at the end of a Manhattan streetcar line in the early 1900's when trolley riding was a regular holiday sport. There they were discovered by the late Marcus Loew, who knew smart showmen when he saw them. The theatre man helped them develop Palisades Park across the Hudson River from Manhattan, which they still own, gave them good steers on other amusement investments. Joe Schenck later went to Holly wood where he married Norma Talmadge and headed United Artists for years. Nick Schenck stuck by Loew's, taking over when the founder...
Armament limitations forced young Germans to develop motorless flying after the War. Product of one ill wind, gliding failed to profit from another. Depression curtailed plane companies' interest in the sport. U. S. manufacture of gliders soon ceased. Some enthusiasts bought their planes from Germany, others built them at home. Groups pooled their resources, formed more clubs, mainly because there were not enough ships to go around. Not 1,000,000 pilots but a bare 70, cream of the total U. S. crop of some 2,500, were at Elmira, N. Y. last week for the seventh annual meet...