Word: losses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mounting postal deficits have caused President Hoover much anxiety. This year's loss is estimated at $100,000,000. The President instructed Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown to discover the causes of, to devise remedies for, these deficits (TIME, July 22). An audit of the scrambled costs of maintaining the different classes of postal service is now in progress. Last week Postmaster General Brown prepared to call into an October conference the big users of first-class mail, particularly direct-mail advertisers. Quickly spread the firm belief that the Department would recommend as a deficit-extinguisher an increase...
Gastric Juice. Total loss of gastric juice causes death in five to eight days, unless Ringer's solution (sodium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium bicarbonate and distilled water) is injected into the veins. Even so death is delayed at the most 76 days.?Chicago's Lester Reynold Dragstedt and James C. Ellis...
...Loss of 7 stocks...
...Case & Co., from 504½ to 320, or a decrease of $23,295,892; 2) International Harvester from 100 to 118¼, or $80,467,626. (Volume of shares made the Harvester gain more than thrice the Case loss.) Columbia Graphophone, from 80 3/8 to 62 7/8 or $4,475,100 decrease...
...Scoring is by points. A win counts 1; a draw ½ a loss 0. Each player plays each competitor once, drawing; for the White or Black pieces...