Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest on the initial investment. In as much as this does not include labor of tending, taxes, etc. and the receipts obtained from the sale of her produce are only $469 it is perhaps as well to have a few discontented cows about to cut down the loss...
Other administrative headaches would include the railroads' loss of passenger traffic to the motor car and the bus; the loss of short-haul freight business to the truck; the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935, the Social Security Act and the Guffey Coal Act; and the Interstate Commerce Commission's reduction of passenger fares last fortnight to a 2? a mile maximum on coaches and 3? on Pullmans...
...Terrific Loss." It was thus not surprising that Pennsylvania's President Martin Withington Clement called the I.C.C. decision a "terrible disappointment," said it would mean a "terrific loss." True, the Pennsylvania did not actually get 3.6? a mile from each customer, as the 3.6? rate represented a standard from which large reductions were commonly made. Actual 1935 revenue per passenger per mile was 2.69?.* But this might drop to 1.7? a mile under the new dispensation...
...health of the woman, a legal obligation of his profession. After a search of Federal and state laws, Dr. Taussig assured doctors that their colleagues have performed therapeutic abortions without professional risk for any one of the following legitimate reasons: "1) very recent pregnancy; 2) general debility with loss of weight; 3) after suppurative appendicitis that has produced extensive adhesions; 4) after a previous Caesarean operation; 5) to prevent increasing prolapse of the pelvic organs; 6) after plastic repair of the pelvic eugenic floor to reasons such prevent as a birth of recurrence; 7) eugenic reasons such as birth...
...loss of men to Mt. Auburn Street accounts for the somewhat strile conditions of the houses. These men, while not primarily interested in house affairs, definitely contribute to life in the houses and make them in fact, as well as name, cross-sections of the college community. But experience shows that the pressure of outside expenses is more than they care to bear, and the inevitable decampment leaves the houses without an important part of their essential constituency...