Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bold patients taught themselves to speak by swallowing air and belching it out in grunts, but until Temple University's Dr. Nathaniel Martin Levin built belch-talk into a system, most larynxless men could never hope to speak again. During the past three years, brief, brisk Dr. Levin has taught 30 men belch-talk. His method is simple, takes some patients only one or two days to learn, is most successful when started right after the operation. A patient swallows air through his mouth, pushes it right out again with his abdominal muscles, chops it into speech with...
Among successful belchers in good society: a New York lawyer who argues cases in court, a Philadelphia magistrate, several teachers. During the past month, Dr. Levin, with Dr. Chevalier Lawrence Jackson, has shown belching sound films before the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the American College of Surgeons. Last week in Manhattan he disclosed to Lawyer Arturo Alessandri, ex-President of Chile, this interesting fact: patients who lose their larynxes do not lose their foreign accent. When they learn to talk in belches, they make the same mistakes...
...neat anomaly was to be found last week in the statistics of 1939's war boom. In October the Federal Reserve production index reached 120, past its 1937 peak of 118. Yet October employment (up 1,250,000 from 1938, according to Madam Secretary Perkins) was down by more than 1,000,000 men from 1937's peak...
Except by comparison with its past records and its huge preferred dividend requirements, Curtis did not do badly in Depression or Recovery. But for 1938 Curtis was able to report a net of only $1,279,163, declared only $1.50 for the year on its preferred. For the first nine months of this year...
...article Zimmerman lauda the New England bill people, calling them "a human asset, something which America will probably recognize much mere, in the future than in the past...