Word: numberals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...controversies, thought it had solved a problem. Confronted by many a press demand for the few remaining short-wave-length radio channels not in use, the Commission allocated 20 transcontinental channels for the sole use of newspapers and press associations to transmit news. Under the American Publishers Committee, a number of public utility corporations were to be formed to handle wireless press matter. But the problem was not solved, the Commission soon discovered. Loud were the cries of newspapers and news services charging unequal allotment, curtailment of their radio press facilities, expense of organization...
James Carruthers Masson of Rochester, Minn. (Mayo Clinic) said: "If it were possible to ascertain the number of cases of cancer throughout the country, the number of successful operations and the number of deaths prevented, the evidence most conclusively would support the conviction that the control of cancer is being realized to an increasing extent...
Walter M. Simpson of Dayton, Ohio, reported on the number of cases of undulant fever and tularemia he had found in Ohio by watching for them. For his researches the American Society of Clinical Pathologists awarded him their first Ward Burdich Medal, in memory of Ward Burdich of Denver, founder of the Society in 1921, who died last year...
Coming to the tariff question, Mr. Macauley said that a year or two ago U. S. Motors would have unanimously approved putting automobiles on the free list. But now, said he, foreign makers have adopted U. S. production methods, employ U. S. engineers. Furthermore: "We have an increasing number of foreign plants, owned or controlled jointly by American manufacturers and foreign interests, the ultimate effects of which no one can forecast." Mr. Macauley felt, therefore, that a partial reduction of from 25% to 10% should be tried before any free list measure was considered. But buses, heavy duty trucks, electric...
Then Mr. Gunther said he was thinking of doing a number of prominent Chicagoans in a group of pen-sketches...