Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kirk hopes that the test will soon be adopted by the health departments of 19 States which are bound by law to test all applicants for marriage licenses. Much cheaper than a Wassermann test (which takes a day), although requiring just as skilled attention, a Laughlen test should cost State health departments no more than 4?. It may also be useful in making quick tests of the health of prospective blood donors when emergency transfusions are necessary-as they may be if World War II should develop into The Next...
Selfridge's in 1937 made a $4,000,000 profit on sales of some $65,000,000. Last year saw the profit more than halved. This September London's retail trade dropped 30% under 1938. People bought blankets, clothing, boots & shoes, blackout materials but not much else. Even J. Lyons & Co., Ltd. (teashops) in the West End felt the pinch, for the first time in years cut its dividend from...
...operations this year showed a $2,709,000 net loss. Of its once lush freight business, about 50% was coal and 40% manufactured goods, and neither recovered from Depression I. With heavy fixed charges on a bonded debt of $51,198,000, the strain of depression was too much. But the straw that broke Jersey Central's back was taxes...
...almost seven years Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been pretty much his own Secretary of the Navy. Last week Columnist Raymond Clapper chided him for being his own Secretary of State. And last week the President himself stepped out in front as his own Secretary of something like Military Economics. At press conference he laid down a new theory: the U. S. ought to have a Pacific coast steel industry. His arguments...
...Bassett Roberts, tall, owlish professorial son of the bank's economist-emeritus, 82-yeaR-old George Evan Roberts. In the same Letter last week Economist Roberts also published the nine-month earnings figures of his selected 320 corporations-a far better gauge than last quarter reports of how much real prosperity, ex-war-boom, U. S. business has achieved. By industrial groups these nine month earnings showed...