Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then for only 48 hours, will Prajadhipok assume the style of King. Sensible & modern, His Majesty will not use in the U. S. his more poetic titles, inherited from long ago: King of the North and of the South, Descendant of Buddha, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-Brother of the Sun, Possessor of the Four & Twenty Golden Umbrellas. (Resembling in theory the Pope's triple-tiered tiara, multiple umbrellas are in many parts of the Orient the symbol of regal power...
...giant's ailments has been the opening of the prodigious new pool in Eastern Texas. Last week its production mounted so rapidly that the Texas Railroad Commission revised the original proration figures for the field from 50,000 bbl. to 75,000 bbl, with an ultimate flow in 90 days of 125,000 bbl. Present capacity of the field is estimated...
...Lucey, U. S. Government investigator, said that during 1930 that town suffered the worst depression in the U. S. for a community of its size. In the boom he sees new prosperity for Tyler, hence his bitterness in flaying those who would halt the gushers' heavy flow...
Weak Hearts & Oxygen. Several types of heart disease can be helped by keeping the patient in atmosphere of 40% to 50% oxygen, reported Dr. Alvan Leroy Barach of Manhattan.* The excess oxygen increases the amount of blood the heart pumps each beat and thus aids the flow of blood through hardened arteries, or it helps maintain circulation when the heart is jolted by a blood clot plugging a blood vessel. The oxygen treatment relieves shortness of breath, lowers pulse rate, improves appetite, aids elimination of body poisons. It does not help tuberculosis of the lungs...
Last week the partnership of Kidder. Peabody & Co. was dissolved. A new partnership of three members was formed to succeed it. New blood will henceforth flow through the firm, but the traditions of Boston and Harvard have not been broken and the name continues to remain the same...