Word: extractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attacked in its early stages by surgery, X-rays or radium. In its advanced stages the specialist can only make the patient more comfortable while he slowly, painfully dies. Two California doctors, Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber, think they have found a palliative or cure in an extract made from part of the adrenal cortex of sheep. They patented their extract, have been running a free clinic in San Francisco since 1930. When they sought to start an Eastern clinic, on Mrs. Grace Hammond Conners' $1,000,000 Long Island estate, "The Monastery," they were refused...
...Champ (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) will probably extract more tears than any other cinema made in 1931, with the possible exception of The Sin of Madelon Claudet (TIME, Nov. 9). It is about a broken-down pugilist (Wallace Beery) and his ragamuffin son (Jackie Cooper). There is really only one situation-Jackie Cooper struggling to go on worshiping his father in the face of Beery's unworthy behavior (guzzling, crap-shooting, brawling in bad company) and Beery, shamed at his shiftlessness, struggling to preserve his son's loyalty. Every time Beery gets drunk, gambles away the racehorse which...
They decided that the pain of cancer is transmitted by sympathetic nerve fibres threading the walls of the blood vessels. Taking only cases rejected as hopeless by at least two reputable doctors, they claimed: 1) that they had eliminated pain in 71% of the cases treated with their extract; 2) that in all cases where the patient did not die the cancer became necrotic, ceased to smell, sloughed off leaving a clean hole. For study 415 patients were sent to the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at Los Angeles, there given Coffey-Humber injections by Coffey-Humber representatives, the effects watched...
...benefits of the use of the suprarenal cortex extract experienced by patients with malignant tumors in relation to gain in weight and relief from pain did not occur uniformly or in the majority of the patients observed...
...York Herald Tribune: "The Commission has evidently tried to select particular commodities, which either have not fallen in price as much as others or are so bulky and necessary that they have to be carried on railroads anyway. From the shippers of these selected goods it hopes to extract about $125,000,000. . . . The proposal is a kind of emergency tax aimed at those who cannot escape...