Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Association of Colored Graduate Nurses met in New York City last week and uttered plaints. The U. S. Negro population is about 10,000,000 and only 365 colored graduate nurses exist to look after their sickness. Only one of the 365 has a bachelor of science degree. Their number is small because not one Southern college offers them training. They must travel north for education. That entails an expense which few Negresses can afford. Scholarships help them out. Belle Davis, judicial-minded executive secretary of the National Health Circle for Colored People, explained the southern lack of nurse training...
Harvard goodies dusted in the dormitories, wiped the windows, made the beds last week to room properly about 500 foreign physiologists and their families who joined with about the same number of U. S. and Canadian physiologists in the 13th International Physiological Congress. The congressmen met for a first get-together session in Harvard's Memorial Hall's fusty, amphitheatrical Sanders Theatre, with twilight filtering on them through stained glass. William Henry Howell, scholar, researcher and executive, had the honor of being the Congress president. No one grudged him the position for Dr. Howell, 69, director of Johns Hopkins school...
...weeks ago United Cigar Co, and Tobacco Products Corp. changed hands (TIME, Aug. 26). The hands into which they passed were those of George Kenan Morrow and his brother Frederick. Since the Morrows were known to be interested in a number of food products, Wall Street began to talk of a new food products combination, perhaps rivaling the recent Morgan merger (Standard Brands). Last week, confirming that guess, four companies ? Toddy Corp. (chocolate malted milk), Edward H. Jacob (canned mushrooms), Kitchen Bouquet (liquid flavoring extracts), Fould Milling (macaroni) ? united in Grocery Store Products Inc., and the name...
...that the consolidation would greatly enhance the facilities of Gold Dust Corp., which has been engaged in distributing trademarked food products, soap, washing and scouring powders, shoe polishes, other articles. Natural was the assumption that United Cigar Stores, Whelan Drug Stores, the other Tobacco Products Corp. outlets, which altogether number some 92,000 stores reaching from coast to coast, would (become potent retail points for Gold Dust products...
...Though many another stock was up to 20, 25 and even 30 times earnings, only three prominent motor stocks were selling at "15 times" or more. Many were below the ten times ratio even in the bull market of 1929. The following table shows recent prices of a number of representative automobile stocks and the price they would command at "15 times" according to first-six-months reports...