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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Messrs. Lubin, Thorp & Henderson were unanimous that the Investigation must find a way to increase the earning-consuming quotient of the nation's low-pay masses if the U. S. machine's performance is to be made magnificent...
Doctors were amazed to find that Mrs. Abrams' blood was 1.72% sugar. That ratio, they decided, came close to the world's all-time sugar high. (Even diabetics rarely have a sugar content higher than one-half of one percent.) In a desperate attempt to rouse her from her coma, and help her liver digest a thick flood of sugar, the physicians pumped 1,000 units of insulin into Elka Abrams' bloodstream, "enough to kill an athlete...
...lumberman named Ernest Lynn Kurth announced early in 1937 that he would build the South's first newsprint plant at Lufkin, Texas, the publishers were even more excited. But though kraft paper factories were fast becoming the South's biggest industrial baby, Southern capital was hard to find for newsprint. Texans were more interested in cotton, oil and cattle, were skittish of Northern capital...
...words of its President, the Student Council is "a medium for bringing before the governing bodies of the University expressions of undergraduate opinion." Because in certain directions the Council has recently shown a tendency to procrastinate, undergraduate opinion has been forced to find other channels of expression--to wit: a printed broadside about non-House men. The very existence of this brochure is in itself a criticism of the Council, an indication that it does not completely fulfill its supposed function. Yet this apparent failure is more the fault of the Constitution which governs the Council than of the individuals...
...Biological Laboratories are being backed by the Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research. At present two of its more notable fields of research are those in which assistant professor Kenneth V. Thimann is working on auxin and Dr. Carl Sachs on colchicene. For some time botanists had been trying to find a way to reproduce plants by other than the normal reproductive cycle in the plant; in other words by a vegetative method. After auxin had been found and made, it was Thimann discovered that when the end of a plant shoot had been left in a solution of auxin...