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...last week's report certainly isn't good news for women who are suing implant makers, especially since the experts' videotaped testimony will now be played before judges and juries hearing their cases. Suddenly, the offer made last month by bankrupt implant maker Dow Corning to pay settlements of $12,000 to $300,000 in exchange for dropping the lawsuits may look a lot more appealing...
...century's turn, Dow died, Jones sold out, and in came the new owners: Jessie Waldron Barron, a prim Boston boardinghouse keeper; and her insatiable journalist husband, who persuaded her to put up the $2,500 down payment. Clarence Walker Barron, 5 ft. 5 in. and 300 lbs. in his prime, was a high-living, big-investing champion of unrestrained capitalism who improved the Journal's standards while ordering up stories promoting companies whose shares he owned...
...free!--information that was once limited to high rollers, everything from where to get the best deals in credit cards, mortgages and bank loans to often valuable advice from professionals on long-term market strategy. So consider how far we have come: a century ago, the messengers of Messrs. Dow and Jones hustled tips to a few fat cats on the Street. Now the Net brings a plethora of business information to one and all. And that can only be called progress...
1930s The Great Depression decade. The Dow falls from a high of 381.17 in 1929 to 41.22 in 1932. National output drops 29%. Unemployment surges...
SARAN WRAP In 2000 Year Old Man, Mel Brooks tells Carl Reiner that "the greatest thing mankind ever devised, I think, in my humble opinion, is Saran Wrap." Why? Because "you can put a sandwich in it! You can look through it!...It's so good and cute." Dow Chemical introduced its revolutionary packaging material, which is durable, airtight, transparent and flexible...