Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wallis said that it had been tested on 366 prisoners in the Correctional Hospital on Welfare Island. He said that narcosan cured them, at least temporarily. His report attracted considerable attention. Dr. Alexander Lambert and Dr. Frederick Tilney, famed Manhattan physicians, reported on narcosan in the New York Medical Journal and Record. They said that it had relieved , morphin, cocain, heroin, veronal and alcohol addiction, without causing delirium or intense suffering. Whether the treatment was permanent or not they said they did not know, could not guess...
...railroads suffered $125,000,000, shipping $50,000,000 more; and the steel industry was so hard hit that of the 147 furnaces in blast last May only five were in blast this December. Of the adding up of such costs there is no end, but the Wall Street Journal conservatively placed the grand total at "well over a billion dollars...
...learning short-hand at 13 in his native Scotland; leaving school at 14 to be a printer's devil: reporting news at meagre wages for the Dundee Courier; helping to found the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa, aged 21; reporting news, at no salary, for the New York Journal of Commerce. "There were days and nights of drudgery during which the one thing he wanted was a smile," said Mr. Schwab's article...
...rose on the Journal of Commerce to a point where Publisher Hearst could see him without difficulty. Publisher Hearst bought his executive services for the New York American, and Mr. Forbes was in a position to cheer up "People Who Think." In 1916 he founded his own magazine and in 1917 cheered up another class of people with his book Men Who Are Making America. This contained complimentary sketches of a score of business tycoons...
...great Sardinian minister served in the army in his youth, and imbibed the revolutionary doctrines of the time during his military service. After a career as a man of business and as an editor of II Risorgimento a Liberal journal of great influence, he became a member of the Sardinian Cabinet in 1850 as Minister of Finance and two years later became Premier...