Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fundamental effect of fever, Dr. Fishberg found, is alkalosis, caused by loss of acidic substances (chloride, lactic acid, carbon dioxide) from the body. The acid loss occurs through the skin and lungs as the body automatically struggles to cool off to normal temperature. During a five-hour bout with fever of 106° F., Dr. Fishberg's patients sweated out as much as five quarts of water, one-half ounce of salt, one-third ounce of lactic acid. Due to such acid content of sweat, athletes often complain of "stinging sweat." Because excess salt is shed through the skin...
...Loss of carbon dioxide occurs through the lungs. Carbon dioxide is both a product of breathing and a necessary stimulant which the lungs need to keep functioning. Because of this shortage, the lungs function inadequately, the patient pants, gasps, loses his breath. For lack of carbon dioxide in the lungs the red blood cells in the arteries and veins hold back their oxygen thus causing air hunger throughout the tissues...
...offered to pay about 400 claimants against it an average of about $3,000 apiece. Of this $1,250,000 total, $890,000 would go to Morro Castle plaintiffs and the balance to Mohawk plaintiffs. In the case of the Morro Castle, which burned in September 1934 with a loss of 124 lives, about 80 suits have been entered for passenger deaths, 30 for crew deaths, 225 for personal injuries. Claims in the case of the Mohawk, which a few months after the first tragedy collided with a freighter and sank, drowning 45, totaled about...
Commissions from the advertising bureau earned the A. M. A. $26,224 last year. The Directory sold 8,280 copies at $15 each since it was issued in 1934. A new edition is being prepared, and the profit or loss of the old is ignored. The Index, a frankly philanthropic publication, cost the A. M. A. $44,439 last year...
...largely confined to the personal activities of Colonel Phillips, who is a sedulous hunter, a determined Republican and a firm believer in the virtues of Horatio Alger. On one occasion when a Texas friend lost his favorite dog, Colonel Phillips dispatched a "blue-blooded" Irish setter to replace the loss, shipping the animal in a special plane piloted by "America's Flying Stenographer." Even better publicized was his wager of a diamondback terrapin dinner that Walter P. Chrysler could not raise ten tons of tomatoes on one of Mr. Chrysler's neighboring acres (TIME...