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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...making great strides and the great need is to teach the public to have the disease treated at an early stage of development. . . . If every case could be recognized in two weeks after cancer has set in, and then treated by surgery, there would be no more death rate from cancer." For such publicity the society is soliciting $1,000,000 to assure an annual income of $50,000. John D. Rockefeller Jr. has already given $125,000, Edward S. Harkness $100,000, and other rich men enough money to make up $536,000. Of this...
...rents have averaged $30 a year. No other landlord has such prompt and complete rental payments. And the health of Mr. Cutting's tenants is several times better than that of the average resident of the five boroughs that make up New York City.* When the city death rate was 12.94 for each 1,000 persons, the death rate in his buildings was a third of that...
...Government has now held the franc stable at approximately 25 to the dollar and 123 to the pound since the first of the year (TIME, Jan. 3). ... The Government will do everything in its power to maintain this stability, and will continue to buy and sell francs at this rate until further notice...
...whole wheat bread, crusty bread, raw vegetables, sorghum molasses and unsalted butter. We ought to eat our lettuce just as it grows. Instead we cut it up first into tiny bits so that we won't have to chew it. This nation today is consuming sugar at the rate of 100 pounds a person a year, as against 30 pounds before the Revolutionary War. That's another failing on our part, our national tooth is too sweet."-Professor John A. Marshall, University of California...
...were buying, or that the "New York Central crowd" had stepped in to prevent some competitive merger. Or it might be that John D. Rockefeller, to whom the road owes $11,396,100 plus 71% accumulated interest, was having a little fun with a dud investment. At any rate Wheeling & Lake Erie stock popped up from 54 to 65; Exchange Governors, thinking a corner had been created, ordered members to report their dealings; and trading slowed up. Obviously little gamblers had taken fliers; certainly they had been caught short for about...