Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spur. Hence the name ergot, from French argot (spur). Good, dry ergot is of inestimable value in obstetrics. Its extract contracts the uterus and arteries, stops hemorrhages, raises blood pressure. Good ergot saves the lives and bolsters the health of hundreds of thousands of women annually. But bad ergot may contain poisons which cause abscesses and kill. U. S. pharmacists get their raw ergot from Spain, Portugal, Poland and Russia...
...steam, as in the locomotor (15 min.) or the usual locomotive (30 min.). Operating cost is, by report, one-fifth that of ordinary Diesels. The unit is 10% to 15% lighter, and powerful enough to draw a train. Danish railroads are testing it. Three new Danish ocean liners may adopt...
...sake of little girls who abhor June bugs (May beetles) for their (supposed) pinching propensity and of farmers who detest them for the damage their grubs do crops, Department of Agriculture entomologists last week warned that the beetles will be unusually annoying this year throughout Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York...
...news may be good. The news may be bad. Business may approve it, or business may prefer that the news be suppressed. We have no decision to make as to that. It is our duty to carry the news...
...earnings on its investment. In addition to its extra-railroad activities, Canadian Pacific has asked the Dominion Parliament for authority to construct 1,200 miles of branch lines and expects to build some 465 miles during the present year. Expansion plans centre around the Saskatchewan district and may result in a "war" with Canadian National which has considered the Saskatchewan territory as particularly its own. Should hostilities result, the Canadian Pacific has assets of about one and a quarter billion dollars...