Word: developing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Psychopathic Institute of the Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati. Eight children were shown as exhibits. They suffered from deficiency in the pituitary glands, were treated by pituitary extracts. One lad of seven, apparently hopelessly feebleminded, had advanced four school grades in three years. Others, dwarfs and giants, were made to develop properly...
...believe that modern war is not an efficient instrument of protection. It seems likely that long-range guns, aerial bombs, both explosive and gaseous, and hunger blockades would so develop that the slaughter behind the lines would exceed that at the front...
...Knowles also announced that a London banking concern, with a capital of $21,750,000, had been formed primarily to develop the first project which had been abandoned by the Ottoman-American Company and that the entire Chester Concession might eventually pass under its control should the company be unable to raise capital...
...England looks upon flying as an economic contribution as essential to commerce as shipping. Aviation should not be regarded as a menace, to be curbed. Aviation ended England's insularity. England is now as much a part of Continental Europe as France or Germany. England's effort is to develop commercial flying, and at the same time provide for its air defenses in proportion to the size and importance of the British Empire. The only thought of competition in the air which England entertains is commercial competition...
...business situation throughout 1923 there has been one constantly reassuring factor-an abundance of credit. The gold ratios of Reserve Banks are high, and the danger has been that too much credit would be extended, rather than that a credit shortage would develop. If the banks ever let go the brakes, a larger inflation than even 1919-20 might occur. At the same time our overlarge gold supply helps in making the business outlook unpredictable according to old methods, because of this necessary yet artificial control of credit now being exercised. Just now the likelihood is for slightly lower money...