Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...growing importance of clinical research in the advance towards a deeper understanding of the human body is unquestioned. During the past half century every major contribution to medicine has come from them. They can tap the best in equipment and men, and are proving the most adequate method of succoring the urban population that can pay little or nothing for medical care. The problem now before the medical profession is how to finance care for the poor in the clinics and continue their research activities...
...about intellectual and social guidance is meaningless to the average Freshman. And unless reformers look at every dimension of the real figure, their efforts are mere words. In trying to uplift the personal element in education to its rightful place beside the academic, they have tended to forget the major point that ultimately the result of college training depends upon the undergraduate. It is he who must make himself well-balanced, he who must determine his set of values, he who must become interested in studying, making friends, and joining activities. The idea of maladjustment can easily be distorted through...
...70th birthday, Scotsman Sandy Herd, onetime (1902) British Open golf champion, became the hero of the $5,000 Rickmansworth Open, when he scored a 67, six under par, in the second round. His 30 for the first nine holes set a new record for major British tournaments, but Oldster Herd had to be content with 19th place (288) at the end of the tournament...
...Discussed legislation to divorce marketing from other phases of the petroleum industry. This is supposed to be a New Deal objective as one result of the conviction, in Madison, Wis. four months ago, of 16 major oil companies and 30 of their officers of fixing the market price on petroleum products at the expense of the public. A Senate subcommittee is now considering a bill introduced by Senator Guy M. Gillette of Iowa to divorce oil production and sale much as the New Deal divorced banking and underwriting in 1933. Last week President J. Howard...
...Only major domestic U. S. airline to make money in 1937 changed hands last week. As planned month and a half ago, Eastern Air Lines, which has no rivals on its runs up & down the Atlantic coast and which made $270,000 last year before tax deductions, was sold by North American Aviation, Inc. to a banking group formed by Eastern's general manager, Captain Edward Vernon Rickenbacker. Elected president of the new company, Eastern Air Lines, Inc., was Eddie Rickenbacker. His backers include Harold S. Vanderbilt and the Wall Street investment firms of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and Smith...