Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Hugh White of Mississippi felt a sharp pain shoot through his chest one afternoon last week, followed by pain in his left arm. Specialists bedded him, treated him for severe cardiac fatigue. Two days later he had the comfort of hearing that the Legislature, in special session, had passed in almost the form he wished it his "dream plan": lifting of all State, county and district (but not municipal) taxes from some 133,000 Mississippi homes valued at not more than...
...shouting the symbol, there were enough sound cues to swell the receiver's average of correct guesses far above the chance expectation. But when the sender was not instructed to indulge in "mental shouting," the percentage of correct guesses dropped to the chance level. Dr. Kennedy felt that these results proved his point with crushing finality...
Rayonier is an outgrowth of Rainier Pulp & Paper Co., founded in 1926 by Edward Morgan Mills. Newsprint-maker Mills made money ($487,000 in 1929, $760,000 in 1930), and launched two more pulp companies in Washington's "Northwest Corner" before he felt Depression in 1931. That year in the general tumble of newsprint pulp he lost $170,000, thereupon borrowed a top-flight Du Pont chemist named Russell M. Pickens and began experimenting. In 1933, Rainier produced 45,000 tons of "dissolving pulp." By 1935, all three Mills mills were in the business; last year they merged...
Sure enough, he wrote last week in the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, most cases of this form of goitre on which he could lay his hands were also chronic sufferers from tonsillitis. He induced some of these patients to have their tonsils removed. Every one felt better. Most of those who also had their overactive thyroids excised recovered, lost their distressing excitability...
...This is not a punitive investigation," declared Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, chairman of the joint Congressional-Executive Monopoly Investigation, last week. Whereupon the committee began planning its probing of the steel, rubber, cement and milk-marketing industries, and many a Big Businessman felt none too sure of the literalness of Chairman O'Mahoney's assertion. This week, something of a sedative for nervous executives was administered by the Brookings Institution in Washington, which published the fifth volume of its famed series of studies of the basic economic maladjustments in U. S. industry. The first four volumes...