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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shares, a 96% interest and complete voting control. As shares in the utilities at the base of his pyramid rose, the shares in companies above them rose a little faster. On the super-top holding companies the effect of this multiplying leverage was prodigious. Central States stock began to expand and divide with the exuberance of yeast cells. Between 1924 and 1929 the common was split 60-for-1, the value of a single share increased from $10.50 to $5,600, and Mr. Williams' holdings, though reduced to 90%, amounted to 7,500,000 shares worth...
...lead the way for colleges, whether public or private, whose standards are amorphous and whose funds for less wealthy students at a low ebb. For if future generations are to share the heritage for which Harvard stands, Harvard must point the way to others as well as develop and expand at home...
Meanwhile the rest of U. S. Industry, light and heavy, was pouring forth additional data on the end of Depression. Gains were widest in capital goods industries like steel, whose markets contract and expand directly with the business cycle. After a study of 161 corporations, Standard Statistics estimated that earnings in the capital goods industries were up about 80%, in the consumer industries, about 40%. Bread & Meat-Standard Brands, Inc. (Fleischmann's Yeast, Royal Baking Powder, Chase & Sanborn Coffee) made $14,727,000 compared to a satisfying $12,744,000 in 1935. Ward Baking Corp. made...
...cubic inch of dry ice makes 450 cu. in. of gaseous carbon dioxide if the gas is free to expand at atmospheric pressure...
...that cocaine deadens sensation long enough for a minor operation, doctors worried because i) cocaine may start a bad narcotic habit, 2) cause a dangerous shock to the system. Best substitute has been procaine (usually called novocain), synthesized in 1905 by a German. But procaine causes capillaries to expand. Thus, 1) an incision may bleed dangerously, or 2) the drug quickly diffuses into the blood stream and loses its local anesthetic effect. To overcome the bad features of cocaine and procaine, anesthetists use them in conjunction with epinephrine (also called adrenalin) which makes capillaries contract and holds the anesthetic...