Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Overproduction comes from the blood-making (hematopoietic) elements of the spleen, marrow and lymph glands. Death invariably results-for acute cases within three months. Chronic cases may hang on for five years or longer. Radium and x-rays, arsenic or benzol cautiously administered for a time slow up the excess white cell production. Transfusion of normal blood has little effect, at least in leukemic children...
...brain cut out because of a tumor. Amazingly, she lost neither To hostesses, a "natural." sight, speech, intellect or ability to move about. Yale's Dr. Arthur Meyer Yudkin reported that cod-liver oil and Vitamin A concentrate are effective remedies for the impaired vision which follows excess smoking and drinking...
Until last year the Brothers Drake held a contract to manage the Drake Hotel for $40,000 a year, plus living expenses for them and their families and 10% of all profits in excess of dividends. After $300,000 of back taxes had accumulated, the stockholders, including Architect Benjamin Marshall (of both the Blackstone and Drake), Vincent Bendix and the McCormick estate, put through a voluntary reorganization. Metropolitan Life extended its $4,000,000 mortgage and $180,000 in defaulted interest and loaned the hotel enough to clean up the taxes. As their contribution the Brothers Drake tore up their...
...proposal of a uniform fee for all students taking part in athletics of any sort is a reasonable one. A few players on Varsity teams may feel that they help to bring in gate receipts far in excess of any expense they cause the Athletic Association, but the greater number who play on minor sports teams make no such financial contribution, and should be taxed for the use of the athletic equipment just as much as the man who takes his exercise individually...
...revaluation of assets which showed a capital loss of $21,000,000. By apportioning this among the partners, they were all legally able to show the Treasury that their income was less than their capital losses and so they owed the Government nothing. Because capital losses in excess of net income could then be carried over two calendar years for the same purpose.† Mr. Gilbert was admitted not as of Dec. 31, 1930 but as of Jan. 2, 1931 which gave the House of Morgan an additional year (through 1933) in which to apply any unused part of their...