Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designate as disease and consider essentially harmful and opposed to life may be changes in terms of adaptation which enable an organ or an organism not to die but to live, even though as a result of such changes the organ or the individual has to live at a lower level of physiological effectiveness. Such changes, therefore, become a mechanism of defense and impart resistance of an acquired nature...
...known human fossils. Last summer, two days before Sino-Japanese fighting broke out in north China, a native workman employed by the Rockefeller-endowed diggers at Choukoutien turned up an upper jawbone of Peking Man, containing six teeth. This was the first upper jawbone, although several skulls and lower jawbones had been found before. The new find was got safely to a museum in spite of the fighting. Dr. Ralph Works Chaney, University of California paleontologist who had concluded from ancient garbage in the cave that Peking Man ate hackberries, now considered the evidence of upper and lower teeth together...
When Franklin Roosevelt announced a program of increased power production to lower power rates, Utilityman Ross stormed up & down the Northwest denouncing this as faulty theory, declaring that the cost of power distribution rather than production is what makes rates high. Liking the forthright Ross manner, President Roosevelt put him on the SEC to take care of utility restriction & registration. As administrator of Bonneville. he will have charge both of producing and of marketing power...
...Also a matter of concern to conservatives this week was the refusal of the U. S. Supreme Court to review a lower court decision sustaining the SEC, whose power to subpoena telegrams had been challenged by three Florida concerns-Ryan Florida Corp., Income Royalties Co. and Florida...
Earnings statements last week were still too scattered to be conclusive and the market slide was not to be stopped so easily. It broke to the lowest lows since 1935, then continued dizzily downward driving Dow-Jones industrial averages some ten points lower to 125. U. .S. Steel led the way, going to a new bottom of $61.50-less than half of the year's high ($126.50). New York Central fell to $17.50, lower even than in 1932 when Delaware & Hudson's shrewd President, Leonor F. Loree, thought it a great bargain and bought his road...