Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter of the cotton crop had been plowed under. For this Agriculture Adjustment Administration was slowly paying out $100,000,000 bonus. Good weather made the yield of the other three-quarters far above normal. Last week spot cotton was selling for a shade over 9? per lb. (last year's price: 7?). Southern planters were demanding currency inflation and 15? cotton. A loose law made possible the pyramiding of the 4.2? per Ib. cotton processing tax from manufacturer to retail consumer, with the result that the A. A. A. last week had to warn the country against profiteering...
...Rienhoff took his chance and last week when the child left the hospital her right, uncontaminated lung had already grown bigger than normal. Soon the sole lung will fill her chest, supply all the air she needs...
...about a missing husband. Presently Butch Saunders learns the Chicago Police Department wants the girl for murder; then that the man she is looking for is not really her husband but the person she has been accused of shooting. All this is as engrossing as the normal detective cinema but what gives Bureau of Missing Persons substance and makes it interesting journalism as well as adequate fiction are convincing shots of how a Missing Persons Bureau works. Captain Webb (Lewis Stone), Butch Saunders' superior, is a skillful and intelligent policeman. The picture shows him giving good advice...
...steeply inclined plank, climbing from a 5-ft. pedestal. Johnny's trainer from the instant he was born, when she began taking a long series of moving pictures of his every activity, has been Dr. Myrtle B. McGraw, the pretty, energetic assistant director of Babies Hospital's Normal Child Development Clinic, affiliated with the Neurological Institute. Dr. Frederick Tilney, Neurological Institute chief, thinks that civilized parents coddle their infants too long, that a child should be taught initiative and self-confidence from his earliest weeks. Dr. McGraw began to teach Johnny exercises on his 20th day. She showed...
...gently instead of abruptly. But, deplored Sir Josiah, his idea of a referee is tenable only if all classes become socially and economically minded. "An Ideal Diet cannot yet be defined," observed Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins speaking as a professional biochemist, because "factors still unknown contribute to normal nutrition." Garbaged Farm Lands. To provide more arable land for England, Francis Maurice Gustavus Du-Plat-Taylor, dock and reclamation engineer, urged that London's house refuse and sludge from sewage disposal plants be deposited upon marsh and mud lands. London sludge, which now is hauled out to sea, amounts...