Word: distress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Signal Oil & Gas Co., pursues some profitable sidelines. On a 4,500-acre ranch near Santa Barbara and on an estate in Australia, he raises cymbidium orchids for florists. His Signal Oil owns a 48% interest in the globe-girdling American President Lines, which it bought at a distress sale, and he is chairman of the Flying Tiger Line which he helped to bankroll when it began 18 years...
...began buying what Germans call die Perlen-the pearls -among Stinnes' manufacturing companies, notably the machinery and plastics producers. Brash and brainy Banker Münemann is playing an unaccustomed role as rescuer, and not entirely as a Samaritan; he is making some good buys for himself at distress prices. Nonetheless, his intervention may at least leave Stinnes enough to retire to-and enough to please the creditors-if Stinnes' lawsuit can be favorably settled...
Punts seem to bore most casual football fans. Regardless of how far the favorite eleven may boot the ball, most partisan rooters see it only as an unproductive surrender of the football. Booming opposition kicks similarly fall to arouse much distress...
Dean Monro and Watson last week expressed deep distress over what they consider to be "a loose moral situation" at Harvard. Dean Monro said present parietal rules and enforcement policies "are encouraging students to think we approve" of immorality, and Dean, Watson proposed a study of the whole situation, saying he was "very seriously" considering a recommendation to cut back parietals...
...most such cases, doctors still do not know the precise cause of the trouble, and they resort to the smokescreen term "idiopathic* respiratory distress." The difficulty probably begins in the womb. At the end of a full-term pregnancy, a woman's hormone balance changes drastically to bring on labor. By a mechanism not yet understood in detail, these same changes, transmitted through the placenta, prepare the baby for the superhuman feat of changing from an aquatic parasite, drawing oxygen from its mother's blood, to an in dependent air breather. If pregnancy is too short, these hormone...