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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chiefly opposed by hotels and restaurants. The New York State Hotel Association underwrote some $50,000 of Joe Tipaldo's court costs, but he spent more than $15,000 of his own money. When the case was won, Laundryman Tipaldo had $8,000 left, used it to expand his plant. Since many laundries kept the minimum wage, he prospered for a time by undercutting his competitors with what he saved on labor costs...
...Ship Subsidy, substituting a forthright system of direct subsidies to shippers for the current indirect and unsavory system of padded ocean-mail contracts. To expand the U. S. merchant marine, the Government will pay up to half the cost of building a ship, lend the operator half of the remainder, pay him an operating subsidy based on the difference between U. S. and foreign costs...
...retrenchment. A new midget radio was developed for the low-price market, the cabinet division was closed down, and President McDonald slugged its overhead. By the time the first light of Recovery was visible, however, Zenith had accumulated a deficit of $750,000. Then President McDonald began to expand as fast as he had retrenched. In 1934 he put over the first of his two most spectacular pieces of salesmanship. One day every tire and oil company in the U. S. got a telegram from Mr. McDonald: "WATCH ABSENCE OF PEOPLE ON STREET BETWEEN ELEVEN AND ELEVEN THIRTY DURING PRESIDENTIAL...
...bracketing of Pilsudski and Batory is dear to Poles. Wearing much the same kind of walrus mustache as Josef Pilsudski, 16th Century King Istvan Batory, born a Hungarian, was smart enough in his brief, ten-year reign to try to expand Poland to both the Baltic and Black Seas. He smashed the Russian Tsar's armies. conquered Danzig and regained a part of the East Baltic coast, died before he could reach the Black Sea. For a little while then Poland was the No. 1 power between western and eastern Europe...
...impeccable History of Medicine: "Dr. George Ryerson Fowler (1848-1906) first performed thoracoplasty in 1893." Thoracoplasty consists of removing parts of ribs along the spine, on the side of the diseased lung. The ribs then collapse like slats into the chest cavity, preventing the diseased lung from expanding and thereby exerting itself. This rest enables the lung to confine the invading germs of tuberculosis while the other lung, with no appreciable inconvenience, takes up a double burden for the rest of the patient's life. Thoracoplasty is not to be confused with artificial pneumothorax or with phrenicotomy, other efficient...