Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nerve-blocking procedure in which alcohol, acetone and chloroform are used in addition to cobra and other venoms, although serving to alter transmission of impulses from and to the diseased muscles or painful areas and that way accomplishing the desired recovery of the part affected, has no paralyzing effect whatsoever either upon the nerves, muscles or parts. The treatment as applied serves to heal the diseased nerves and the patient is confined to the hospital bed only for a few hours...
...less than two years sulfanilamide has cured thousands of streptococcic infections of various types, including streptococcic septicemia (blood poisoning), streptococcic sore throat, peritonitis, puerperal sepsis (childbed fever), etc. Meningitis, gonorrhea and certain types of pneumonia have also been conquered. So far sulfanilamide has had no remarkable effect on diseases produced by bacteria other than the streptococcus, men-ingococcus, pneumococcus, or gonococcus. ¶ Although there have been only ten fatalities in 4,000 cases,** with "no correlation between these reactions and the dosage," sulfanilamide often produces such unpleasant by-effects as nausea and vomiting, dizziness, rash and fever. These disappear with...
...craw which apparently occasioned this statement was an NLRB report, issued last week, which in effect showed that, as a general thing, employes participating in NLRB elections prefer C. I. O. over A. F. of L. In 208 of 966 elections between October 1935, and January i, 1938, C. I. O. directly opposed A. F. of L., won 160. In all, C. I. O. contested in 557 elections, won 81.7%; A. F. of L. entered 453, won 56.1%. Lately the proportion of A. F. of L. victories has risen, C. I. O.'s has declined, and (significantly for both...
...Kentucky ranks in national news-interest with the Derby at Churchill Downs. Of all 32 Senatorial primaries this year, Kentucky's Democratic race is the most significant and most colorful-significant because, in the person of his Majority Leader of the Senate, Franklin Roosevelt himself is in effect running to avert a rebuff to his New Deal; colorful because Senator Barkley's challenger is a brassy colt who, on sheer political form, could win in a walk if this were not a Roosevelt Handicap...
...Proposed fair trade practice rules for the silk industry. As it has already done with the rayon industry, FTC at the request of certain members of the silk business drew up a proposed set of rules which will not go into effect until after a public hearing August 2. Points which upset the industry last week were that the label on silk state the exact proportion of metallic weighting and finishing materials in the goods, if any, and that the word "silk" may not be used in a firm's name unless a "substantial part" of its business...