Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens who are grouchy, timid or asocial because their ears are dull. For 50,000 hopeless U. S. deaf-mutes, the society can do nothing but cheer for bigger & better special training schools. Through newspaper campaigns and radio programs, the society, which claims such hard-of-hearing, hard-working members as Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Owen D. Young, has 1) pushed the passage of laws in eleven States demanding hearing tests for all school children;* 2) campaigned for routine lipreading classes in all public schools, to give confidence to 3,000,000 hard-of-hearing U. S. children whose eyes...
Inner Ear. People whose hearing is impaired by middle-ear injury and people past 30 who are gradually growing hard of hearing, are not really deaf. Medicine can do little to strengthen their damaged or aging middle-ear structures, but if their cochleae are sound and healthy, they can hear with the aid of bone-conducting devices which transmit sound waves directly through the skull to the inner...
...dread angina pectoris (heart attack). Rapidly on the increase, angina pectoris (usually connected with diseases of the heart's arteries) claims over 10,000 victims in the U. S. every year, mostly middle-aged professional men (doctors are especially vulnerable) who work, eat, smoke, drink too hard...
Three things now hold up new investment in utility plant: 1) many systems have poor capital structures and weak earnings records which make it hard for them to raise capital; 2) no one knows yet for sure when or if Government competition will end; 3) and nobody knows either what sort of territorial integration (under the Public Utility Holding Company Act) may eventually coordinate the sprawling structures of many holding, companies...
...York Central, whose gross jumped $5,900,000 (from $25,800,000 to $31,700,000) compared with September 1938, while its net operating income jumped $4,100,000 (from $2,200,000 to $6,300,000). On the other hand Pennsylvania, which in September was already hard at work repairing down-at-heel freight cars (such repairs are charged to maintenance), had a $3,000,000 increase in various costs which held its net operating income down. Result: its net rose $3,000,000, its gross...