Word: mckinney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the throat of Ruth M. McKinney, one of the graduate staff working for a doctor's degree, they secured the most useful cultures. It was of the polymorphous streptococcus. It "looks like a microscopic chain of unmatched beads which a child has strung together." When this germ collects into minute, smooth colonies in the blood, it causes a cold or mild influenza. When the colonies become rough, the influenza grows severe, virulent. With the specific cause of influenza thus recognized, an intelligent way of treatment and a vaccine for prevention lies in purview...
...hell. Sometimes local color dams up the story, but mostly, in spite of the temptation of spirituals, it is under control. Vidor's skill as a picturemaker is enough alone to make Hallelujah one of the best films of the year. Best actress : brown-yellow Nina Mae McKinney. not yet 18, who became a Manhattan chorus girl at 12, was picked by Vidor from the chorus of Blackbirds. Best tune: "The End of the Road" by Irving Berlin. Most dramatic sequence: Hot Shot (William Fountaine) running through the swamp when Preacher Zeke comes after him to avenge Chick...
Corrigan re-named the concern the Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co. It is the tenth largest of the U. S. steel group,* but not yet is it to be guided by a woman. "Young Jim," who had bucked and reared under a trusteeship, had fashioned a trust bridle for his widow. She may sell her steel shares; she cannot vote them. That power lies with the Union Trust Co. of Cleveland and John H. Watson Jr., elected last week president of the corporation...
...game will be played, as many another business game, for the benefit of women, since what stock Mrs. Corrigan does not own is owned by Mrs. Price McKinney, Mrs. Stevenson Burke, widow of the judge, and Mrs. Parthenia Burke Ross, his granddaughter...
...Bethlehem 7,900,000 Youngstown-Inland (if merged) 5,040,000 Jones & Laughlin 3,000,000 Republic-Trumbull (when merged).. 1,950,000 American Rolling Mill 1,750,000 Central Alloy 1,400,000 Wheeling Steel 1,273,000 Colorado Fuel & Iron 1,138,000 Corrigan-McKinney...