Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some factor in the diet, which then stimulated the pituitary and through it the sex mechanism. With this hypothesis in mind. Perry irradiated whole-wheat grains with ultraviolet light, fed them to his birds. That did the trick, whereas the sex glands of other birds which received the same (normal) illumination, but did not eat the irradiated, aphrodisiac wheat, remained in the "resting condition...
...this anti-scurvy vitamin are oranges and lemons. In 1932 it was produced artificially by Chemist Tadeus Reichstein of Zurich, is now available to physicians in cheap form. Last week Modern Medicine announced that University of Chicago's Dr. Siegfried Maurer and associates* had given "restful and apparently normal sleep" to 60 healthy but insomniac patients by feeding them one to three grams of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) daily. One group, which was insane, required a larger dose. As soon as the patients achieved a normal sleep, vitamin treatment was discontinued...
When Messrs. Dun & Bradstreet reported last week that U. S. retail sales for July were 16% below 1937, they added an explanation: "excessive heat replacing heavy rainfall as a deterrent to shoppers." Ice cream consumption in seven days was 500,000 gal. above normal. No adequate figures were available on the consumption of gasoline, soft drinks, railroad tickets and many another commodity, but it was evident that extraordinary weather had made substantial losses and profits for businessmen. And last week for the second in succession, most of the U. S. east of the Rockies lay sweltering under a heat & humidity...
Miserable though it made people on land, the "humiture wave" (see p. 9) brought joy to seagoing sportsmen, especially to anglers after big game fish off Montauk Point, L. I. There, unaccustomed water temperatures (as high as 76°) brought Gulf Stream fish out of their normal ranges. Last week a blue runner was caught, and Sportsman S. Clay Williams Jr. hooked & landed the first blue marlin ever taken off Montauk on rod & reel, a 215-pounder...
...brokerage community believed what Charles Gay put into his Exchange report-that too strict regulation by SEC was to blame. Wrote President Gay in his usual mild way: "I am fearful that, in an effort to cure what might be termed sporadic evils, undue restraints are being placed upon normal, proper action, thus creating abnormal market conditions. . . ." Same week that this tempered but widely publicized kick issued from the Exchange, stock prices, having climbed back to 190, again turned down in the beginning of the worst crash since 1929. As the toboggan gathered momentum, President Gay began to seem...