Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proved costly to United States Daily, the careful, colorless chronicle of official news of the Federal and 48 State Governments printed daily in Washington by David Lawrence. Subscribers have made a practice of requesting special, thoroughgoing reports of conditions affecting their private interests-transportation, marketing, taxation, insurance, oil production et al. To the extent of the paper's facilities Publisher Lawrence has tried to meet, such requests, either by printing the reports when space permitted or sending individual replies. The problem of keeping production costs in line with income has now, he says, necessitated a change in policy. Last...
...skeptical. In Atlanta's Steiner Cancer Clinic he found as many cancers of the breast and cervix in Negroes as in whites. Young Atlanta Negresses more often than young Atlanta white women have cervical cancer. Thinking that Negroes might have black cancer more often than Dr. Matas et al. believed, Dr. Bishop went hunting for dark moles on full-blooded cancerous Negroes. For clues he looked first at their soles and palms and around their nails where the color is slightly lighter than elsewhere, moles more discernible. He found his moles, proved that the cancers were unsuspected melanomata...
...whimperings reported from Paraguay. On the other hand, as museum director he was mightily concerned with the public's reaction to a Harvard traveler's troubles. The sensationalized murder of Columbia University's Henrietta Schmerler when she bungled among the Apaches (TIME, March 28, et ante) has made every institution wary of inept field agents. But Professor Barbour held his tongue until last week from Buenos Aires came a fresh despatch : "The existence of white Indians with blonde hair, who live like animals . . . was confirmed by Dr. Donald S. Wees, Harvard Museum explorer. . . . The explorer said...
...Counsel William A. Gray and his investigators to prowl around Wall Street for more data, Senator Peter Norbeck's Banking & Currency Committee last week resumed hearings on the buying & selling practices of U. S. stock exchanges. Having heard a lot about post-crash short-selling (TIME, April 25. et seq.), the Committee now went back to the great pre-crash bull pools...
Some three years ago the Earl of Feversham bought one of Pomona's prize stallions, Shelif. A controversy over the purity of Shelif's ancestry followed (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929 et seq.). Many Kellogg horses have been sired at Baroness Wentworth's stud in England, including Raseyn, a 7-year-old whose sire Skowronek narrowly escaped being hanged as a royalist in the Russian revolution. Other famed Kellogg horses: Jadaan, who carried the late great Rudolph Valentino on his cinematic sheiking expeditions; Pep and Rossika, trick horses; King John, said to be the only desert-bred Arabian...