Word: parente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Interior and the first German-born citizen to sit in the U. S. Senate.* Under such auspices the kindergarten soon attracted philanthropists. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of William Randolph, opened one for the children in her husband's mining community at Lead, S. Dak. and financed the Parent-Teachers' Association mainly to promote the kindergarten movement...
...will be used to refund an old debenture issue. The disposition of the rest is a complete lesson in Hearst finance. First comes the payment of bank loans amounting to $1,900,000. To get these bank loans Hearst Magazines had to have them guaranteed by its parent company, Hearst Corp., by its grandparent company, American Newspapers, Inc., and personally by William Randolph Hearst. Mr. Hearst's name is also on a $2,000,000 printing bill due Cuneo Press, Inc. This bill will also be paid from the proceeds of the new issue...
...after all charges Hearst Publications as a whole earned only $2,372,000, a slight gain over the year before but under the figure for 1934. Not the least startling item in Hearst Publications, Inc.'s accounting is the principal tangible asset-$37,000,000 due from its parent company, Hearst Consolidated Publications. A footnote explains that most of that item once represented money due from another Hearst company. When Hearst Consolidated was formed in 1930, it assumed the debt in part payment for stock in Hearst Publications. Thus, in effect, the subsidiary lent the parent company the money...
Nicknamed "EAP" (epi-allo-pregnanolone), the hormone was extracted from pregnancy urine, one-third of an ounce from 10,000 gallons. After its structure was determined, it was easily synthesized from cholesterol, parent substance of other sex hormones. EAP differs from progesterone, a female hormone, only in having four fewer hydrogen atoms. It was administered to a man who had been impotent all his life. After ten days he became potent, and his "condition of ecstasy" lasted three days...
...Breese Davis Jr. reported that their 76,563 acres of cultivated Sumatran and Malayan rubber trees last year yielded 42,185,000 Ib. of caoutchouc, earned $1,943,790 profit, twice the 1935 figure. More interesting to preferred stockholders, who have had no dividends for nine years* was the parent company's report. Net income for 1936 was $10,172,000, compared with 36,532,000 the year before. But the stockholders can hope for no dividends until U. S. Rubber Co.'s accumulated deficit is wiped out. Even after last year's profit the deficit stood...