Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intelligence. Three days after her operation, little Alice was sucking lustily at her bottle. Her fontanel began to sink. Last week, when Dr. Scarff gave Alice a checkup, he found that her head had decreased a quarter of an inch in circumference, while her body had nearly doubled in size. She gurgled, tried to sit up alone and reach for his finger. "We're simply crazy about her now," cried beaming Mr. Jackson...
...Eugene Grace, whom Charles Schwab brought up to be the thin-lipped king of Bethlehem. Last week Grace declared for the benefit of his stockholders their first dividend (50? a share, $1,591,992) since Christmas 1937. This good news was considerably bolstered by his announcement that second-quarter earnings ($3,822,927) were up a whopping 2.443% from the second quarter of 1938. Bethlehem's common stock greeted this by dropping half a point and the stock market as a whole by backing away from the peak it stopped at two weeks ago (144.71 on the Dow Jones...
...about the last half was bitter. The automobile industry, he pointed out, is covered on its steel requirements until early 1940, lesser users of strip mill products until October. Meanwhile, Bethlehem's 60.4% operating rate is supported by an order backlog-including steel orders for fourth-quarter automobiles of only $184,921,081 (compared to a backlog of $192,040,906 and production at 53.8% three months before), no good omen for fourth-quarter production...
...Milwaukee last week Dr. Roland Metzler Klemme, St. Louis surgeon, described what he considers the best modern technique for relief of tic douloureux. It is a brain operation performed with the patient in a sitting position, under local anesthetic. Dr. Klemme makes a hole about the size of a quarter in the skull under the temple, lifts up the brain, exposes the root of the fifth cranial nerve, which serves the upper and lower jaws and the eyes. He delicately separates the fibres, severs only the sensory jaw fibres. In this way he has successfully relieved some 200 tic sufferers...
Three and a quarter million U. S. farms consist of less than 70 acres and on most such farms horses are the only tractors Year and a half ago Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. invaded this market with a cheap light tractor. Last year Deere & Co followed; month ago Motormaker Henry Ford. No jitney tractor, however, was announced by the giant (29½%) of the power implement industry; tough, sprawling International Harvester...