Word: margins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote to substitute some other name for the word "strike" failed by a narrow margin...
...vote to substitute some other name for the word "strike" failed by a narrow margin...
Local elections in 1934 swept Democrats into control of the House, left Republicans with a two-vote margin in the Senate. On New Year's Day 1935 the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Robert Emmett Quinn, took matters in his own hands. As the Senate's presiding officer, he declared the election of two Republicans null & void, installed two Democrats in their places. To form a quorum he had State troopers force three other Republicans to remain in the chamber. Thus equipped with a Democratic majority, in 14½ minutes he whipped through a series of astounding reforms intended...
...Wendell M. Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute recently crystallized a virus. Since crystallization is a distinctive peculiarity of nonliving substances, Dr. Stanley's work indicates that viruses are proteins which, while lifeless, lie very close to the margin of life...
Last week Climax Molybdenum's contented stockholders received an annual report showing that their 2,520,000 shares are currently selling at 30 times per-share earnings for 1935. On sales of $6,346,000, Climax last year made $3,227,000-a profit margin of over 50%. Year before its profits were $1,790,000. During 1935 the company paid off its $1,000,000 funded debt, boosted dividends four successive times. "Plans are under way for increasing production facilities to keep pace with the increasing demand for the company's product," wrote President Max Schott. Calling...