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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Amos Parker Wilder, 74, one-time (1909-14) U. S. Consul-General in Shanghai, later the prohibitionist co-editor of New Haven's Journal-Courier, father of Novelist Thornton Wilder; of heart disease; in New Haven, Conn...
From these basic principles the Lino type has never varied, though the original machine now has 75,000 descendants setting type in more than 70 languages in 86 countries. Linotypes sold slowly at first. Original users were the Tribune, Louisville Courier-Journal, Chicago News and Inter-Ocean, Washington Post, Providence Journal. In 1891 Mergenthaler Linotype Co. was formed with Philip Tell Dodge, Washington patent attorney, as its first president. Heading the present 18-acre Brooklyn plant of Mergenthaler and its affiliates - London's Linotype and Machinery, Ltd. and Berlin's Mergenthaler Setzmaschinen-Fabrik - are able President Joseph...
Last week mice-breeding Biologist Clarence Cook Little of Bar Harbor, Me., published in the American Medical Association Journal facts about the inheritance of cancer which mice taught him. Fundamentally, they proved that the tendency to cancer is inherited, just as are brown eyes or curly hair. Cancer can be bred out of a family by marriages into noncancerous families...
...industrialism with its high-pressure rivalries, employment problems, money standards, as the plantation system gave way; the persistence of older traditions within the new order that was growing up. Born in Atlanta, Author Mitchell has lived there all her "thirty-odd" years, been a feature writer on the Atlanta Journal, is the wife of the advertising manager of Georgia Power Co. She worked on Gone With the Wind for seven years. When a publisher's representative cried to see the manuscript she told him that she was merely "playing around with the idea of doing a novel some time...
Besides cataracts, dinitrophenol depletes white corpuscles of the blood, causes polyneuritis, is responsible for seven known deaths. Last week in the American Medical Association Journal two Cleveland physicians declared it may also cause heart disease...