Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent years, financial stringency has caused some medical schools to rely more largely on the income from student fees, and larger numbers of students have been accepted for the sake of gaining additional revenue. Unfortunately, in most instances the teaching staff has not been correspondingly strengthened or the physical plant commensurately enlarged. In consequence it has been found that too often faculties are undermanned and laboratories overcrowded. A more serious feature of increasing enrollments is the failure to maintain high academic standards in the selection of students. Too many applicants with poor scholastic records have been accepted, with inevitable impairment...
...tiny glass vessels, Drs. David Glick and Gerson Ravinson Biskind of San Francisco made micro-analyses of microscopic bits of human tissue. Thus they learned that the middle part of pituitary gland contains Vitamin C (found in oranges, lemons, tomatoes, peppers, spinach) in more concentrated form than any plant or other animal tissue. The fore part of the pituitary, the adrenals and the ovaries also contain heavy Vitamin C concentrations. Concentration in the ovary reaches its height as the ovum ripens. That relation suggested to Drs. Click & Biskind that Vitamin C may be involved in the formation of sex hormones...
Last year American Austin Car Co., having lost money every year since it started, applied for reorganization under Section 77b of the Bankruptcy Act. Austins continued to straggle out of the Butler plant until last December. Then the plant closed, orphaning what remained of the 20,000 Austins which had taken the road...
Into this gloomy scene came an ebullient young man named Roy S. Evans who sells automobiles in Atlanta, Ga. Last week he acquired American Austin Car Co. by an outlay of just $5,000. In addition he assumed a $150,000 mortgage on the plant, $40,000 in overdue interest, $35,000 in unpaid taxes. Automan Evans said he and his associates would buy $250,000 worth of new machinery. "Within ten days," he announced, "we expect to have ready enough parts for the 10,000 Austins now running. Then we will swing into making new cars. Within a year...
Ashore, Captain Sullivan and his crew spent three days examining the new "village," with its radio station, weather bureau, power plant, refrigeration plant, electric stills for drinking water, airport office, service shops, kitchen, dining hall, four buildings for living quarters. Then last week they flew back across the International Date line to Midway, on to Hawaii, finally to San Francisco, having traveled 10,064 miles in three weeks in the third exploratory testing of the new airline...