Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diet & Acidosis. Acidosis, or the loss of alkaline substances from the body, is not a disease but a serious condition which aggravates pregnancy, infantile diarrhea, infectious diseases, diabetes, kidney and heart troubles. People who diet are apt to develop it, especially women. The women's risk, said Professor Harry James Deuel of the University of Southern California, "is associated with the inability of women to oxidize fat during starvation as completely as males. For this reason, an accumulation of incompletely oxidized end products, which are organic acids, occurs in the female...
...Prime reason for the change was the fact that fuel oil stocks have been reduced 20% since September to a ten-year low, with a consequent rise in "Bunker C" prices from $1.05 to $1.80 per bbl. To the oil industry Equitable's decision meant not only the loss of 70,000 bbl. worth of business annually, but a dangerous precedent...
...could be started, citizens were to be encouraged to remodel and repair their houses. This was to bring out perhaps $1,000,000,000 of private capital. The Government was to set up a Home Credit Insurance Corp. to insure banks and other accredited lenders against 20% of any loss they may have from making loans to remodelers. 2) New building was to be stimulated by making it easy to sell mortgages, old and new. Projected was mutual insurance of amortized first mortgages on owners' homes, mortgages of not more than $20,000 not more than 20 years duration...
...England contractor was required to pay mill costs plus a "phantom" rail carrying charge on a 400-mi. haul, although the mill was only 72 mi. away. Same practice was prevalent in the cement industry. Biggest Darrow blast was directed against the retail code. Originally containing specific provisions against "loss-leaders" and unfair advertising of consistently lowered prices, the code was "stealthily" emasculated, said the Darrow Board, between its adoption and final promulgation. Responsible, hinted the report, was the influence of one potent "socially and politically" figure in the industry (i. e. Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus...
...tuberculosis bureau, said that although he believed in the eventual discovery of a cure, he saw none in prospect. But, he added, "control is a comparatively simple matter if the disease is caught soon enough. . . . Any person who contracts a particularly heavy cold or who has suffered from loss of weight may have tuberculosis. Any such condition should immediately be reported to a physician who can diagnose the condition by the use of x-rays...