Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today in New York City (pop. 6,930,000) live 1,222,331 men, women & children on public bounty, half of which comes from the Federal Government. Of the four-billion-dollar Federal work relief fund, this greatest single pool of public destitution in the history of the U. S. will get about $220,000,000, just over 5%. To see that the jobless get it with minimum inefficiency is Soldier Johnson's job. Responsible only to Administrator Hopkins, he will work four days a week, receive no salary, draw $25 a day for expenses...
...physiological mechanism which produces exophthalmic goitre remains a medical puzzle. In typical cases the thyroid is enlarged and the eyeballs protrude from their sockets. But neither pop eyes nor big neck are essential symptoms of exophthalmic goitre. A rapid pulse, moist skin and loss of weight, despite a good appetite, suggest the disease. The patient is restless and irritable, laughs and cries easily, becomes angry and excited at the least provocation, is comparatively insensitive to cold. An unfailing test for exophthalmic goitre is the basal metabolism rate, measured by a simple breathing machine. If after a long rest...
Rest palliates the stormy symptoms of exophthalmic goitre. The only cure is subtotal excision of the troublesome thyroid. The patient immediately calms down. After a time the pop eyes usually recede...
...this venture in self-education, high-school officials furnished a schoolroom for weekly meetings, appointed a faculty adviser. Automotive manufacturers send lecturers, catalogs, publicity handouts, occasionally lend an automobile. Most obliging has been the Oldsmobile plant in nearby Lansing. Last week the Royal Lions' president smashed a pop bottle on the radiator of the club's car-of-the-year: an Oldsmobile...
Near the northern end of the Mohawk Valley at the gateway to the lake country of upper New York is Utica (pop. 100,000), maker of one-third of all the nation's knitted underwear. Remote from a metropolis, Utica society is nothing if not clubby. Rare is the matron who does not belong to one of the town's State-famed musical societies, garden clubs, welfare organizations...