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Dates: during 1930-1939
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North. Under Agua Caliente's bizarre red roofs and stucco walls are gambling rooms where cinema celebrities and others who can afford to lose are encouraged to expand the limits at roulette, birdcage, chemin de fer, craps. There is small call for champagne cheaper than Mumm's Cordon Rouge. Agua Caliente's golf tournament-first prize $15,000-is the richest in the world. Even more of an attraction than these for Hollywood plutocrats has been the racetrack, which was constructed at a cost of $2,500,000 by removing part of a mountain. The Annual Agua...
...marketable securities. The cash position has probably improved since the end of last year through a reduction of inventories. The decision to retire bonds with cash was important to the industry because it showed the biggest company in the business was consolidating its position, not planning to expand. This was the opposite of Standard's policy...
Sugar-coated Hearts. The heart itself is contained in a double sack, or pericardium. The inner sack fits snugly against the heart. The outer sack is just big enough to let the heart expand comfortably. Often enough to concern doctors the sacks become inflamed, from pneumonia, rheumatic fever and other infectious diseases. The sacks may stick together. Or the outer sack may adhere to the inside of the chest wall or to the upper side of the diaphragm. Or fibrous bands may develop and constrict the heart. During early pericardiac inflammation, Dr. Lewis Atterbury Conner of Cornell University pumps...
Next to swift death, the worst effect of infantile paralysis is inability to breathe. The rib-raising muscles which cause the lungs to expand are paralyzed. The victim soon suffocates...
Banker Gibson and Manufacturers Trust will make no money directly out of the liquidations. But in return for their arduous public service they will be well-paid in goodwill. Manufacturers, wishing to expand, will be in a position to take for its own such of the defunct flock as it wishes. A reason that Manufacturers is in a position to clean up so much scattered wreckage is that it has 52 widely scattered branches. As the wreckage is cleared, as the broken banks' depositors happily get back much of their $42,000,000, Manufacturers' branch managers will...