Word: like
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important as further dust control, says the report, is prevention of tuberculosis, which spreads like wildfire through the ramshackle huts. "As a result of overcrowded living conditions it is not unusual for a silicotic father, infected with tuberculosis, to share the same room or even the same bed with his children, even though he is continually showering the air with germs when he coughs." The miners, who are 90% native-born, live in the most abysmal ignorance of the nature of their disease. One tried to check his silicosis by giving up chewing tobacco. Another said...
...learn, is most successful when started right after the operation. A patient swallows air through his mouth, pushes it right out again with his abdominal muscles, chops it into speech with his teeth, tongue and lips as he expels it. Easiest type of word to learn is one like "church," formed with teeth and lips. Hardest is a guttural sound in the back of the throat, like "gang." Belch-talk is easy to understand but so husky that patients are often asked if they have a cold...
...little jaded last week were U. S. businessmen. The thrill of seeing industrial production run ahead of corresponding months in 1929 wore off. There were some who found many an indication to justify a little pessimism, if they felt like it. Items...
...Franklin Roosevelt, encouraged by production at 123, began to make noises like economy. If, as in 1937, he should get revenues to exceed Government expenditures, business will be deprived of nearly $300,000,000 a month of artificial stimulation...
...Like most other U. S. businesses, Curtis Publishing hit its earnings zenith in 1929, when it reported a net of $21,534,265, an all-time high for any publishing enterprise. Holders of its 7% preferred (of which 722,714 of 900,000 shares are now held by the public) got their dividends as they had for years. Holders of its common got $8 in dividends, felt they had a fine investment in a stock which was selling at $132 before the October crash. But by the depth of the depression in 1932 the dividend on common had dropped...