Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sideburn, burnsides, mutton chops, or cōtelette was worn by Colonist Eric Olson. Famed throughout the Civil War period by the air with which General Ambrose Everett Burnside wore it, the cōtelette, when connected with the mustache, is known in Austria as the Kaiser Franz Josef bart...
...cutting the offending nerve, thus preventing it from carrying its message of pain to the brain. This operation occasionally paralyzes the painful side of the face, causes the features to droop lopsidedly. Other surgeons treat facial neuralgia by injecting alcohol into the nerve, thus stultifying it for a period. This procedure is difficult. The operator must push his hypodermic needle through the cheek and into a small notch in the skull midway between cheek bone and ear. Then he must blindly puncture a nerve slimmer than the lead of a pencil. If he misses the nerve, the alcohol causes dreadful...
...common with makers of cars, couplings, air brakes, signals and other railroad necessities, had felt the effects of the peculiar industrial dependence under which they operate. Good or bad, the railroad equipment business varies as the square of the railroad business. When U. S. railroading lapsed into a quiet period of consolidation after the War, the business of equipping railroads became not merely quiet, but definitely dull. After 1929 it almost ceased to exist...
Biggest splash of all was made by Southern Pacific on the way out of the deep red of 1935, when it lost $3,323,000 in the first six months, into the shallow but significant black of $113,912 earned this year in the same period. Southern Pacific placed equipment orders totalling $21,000,000-$2,700,000 for locomotives, $8,000,000 for freight & baggage cars, $10,500,000 for refrigerator cars. The Van Sweringen line, Chesapeake & Ohio, placed orders...
Irate Showman Brady was at pains to point out last week that Baldwin's orders had increased nearly 100% over 1935. Its bookings for the first seven months of 1936 were valued at $19,528,000, compared to $10,562,000 in the same period last year. Baldwin does not make a half yearly report but most of the other big railroad equipment companies do. Reports from twelve of them for the first half of this year showed aggregate earnings of $9,334,000, compared to an aggregate loss of $219,000 in the first half...