Word: gassers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate Military Affairs Committee was a bill authorizing the U. S. War Department to forbid Army officers to marry during their first three years of active service. Reason: second lieutenants draw only $125 a month, should keep their minds on the Army. Said Brigadier General Lorenzo Dow Gasser, testifying for the bill: ". . . We propose to exempt the present West Point class that graduates this June. I understand commitments have been made...
...Dick Norton had collected mineral rights to about 26,000 acres. Thena young Shreveport geologist encouraged Norton, who was down to his last dime, to borrow money and finance his own drilling. A well in the north part of the Parish turned out to be a gasser producing 50,000,000 cubic feet daily...
...Boheme, Faust. Rosalinda Morini, a local coloratura who sings off pitch, was the heroine in Traviata. One Mildred Gerber, a protegee of Alderman Jacob M. Arvey, trilled hesitantly as Lucia di Lammermoor. Though Chicago opera audiences are notably easy to please, there was vigorous hissing when Tenor John Pane-Gasser appeared in Il Trovatore, uncontrolled laughter at Virginia Pemberton who as Micaela in Carmen gave the season's most inept performance. In Carmen Manager Longone interpolated a floor show by the popular dance team, Veloz & Yolanda. His innovation had its box-office effect but purists shuddered at his taste...
...Gasser: It is because we have to give more attention to the functions of the body. It is also because, in the last 50 years in the field of conquest of infectious diseases, we have been very successful. . . . When one looks at the diseases that are decreasing and those that are increasing, one finds that those that are lethal because of deterioration of organs are increasing. Cancer, for example, is going...
...Rockefeller: But isn't it true, Dr. Gasser, that increase is a rate based upon, shall we say, increase in population-I am. now referring to cancer-and increase in longevity? Dr. Gasser: But that increase is due in a large measure to the great strides that have been made in pathology, which is represented in the greater preservation of life...