Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When these sources of confusion were less well understood than now, it was fashionable to attribute every pituitary reaction to a separate hormone. Riddle exposed some of these as "ghosts." He believes the number of definitely established front-lobe hormones to be small-five at most. These possible five are 1) thyrotropin, the thyroid-stimulator; 2) adrenotropin, which acts on the adrenals; 3) and 4), "FSH" and "LH" which affect the ovaries or testes; 5) prolactin...
From vast, subterranean Michigan streams Dow Chemical Co. pumps brackish water, produces aspirin, phenol, ammonia, chlorine. From the vast Pacific, Great Western Electro-Chemical Co. dredges salt, manufactures liquid chlorine, caustic soda, caustic potash. In a corporate chemical reaction last month these two companies decided to combine. Last week their stockholders approved the process. Catalyst of the consolidation was Willard Henry Dow, elder son of the late, great Chemist Herbert Henry Dow. No chemical genius but an efficient business executive, Willard Dow graduated from University of Michigan in 1919, went to work for his father as a department head, succeeded...
Last week, after a few months of recovery, U. S. business had regained 55% of its Depression II losses. And for the first time since recovery began there appeared visible doubt as to its continuance. Most visible sign was the stockmarket's third successive week of reaction. Although no slump appeared in production indices- power, building, autos continued up- there was distress in two prime measures of public demand for goods; a rise was seasonally normal and money supply was at a peak, but nationwide bank debits and bank clearings tumbled. If such an unbalance-production rising, demand falling...
...were encouraged by the market action, the former contending that the slight sell-off largely reflected tax selling and realizing in a contracting volume of business, while the latter believe, as a result of the backswing from yesterday's recovery, that many traders are not convinced that the recent reaction has run its full course
...typewritten sheet and, in cold accents so deliberate that reporters could take it down verbatim, he read: "The news of the past few days from Germany has deeply shocked public opinion in the United States. Such news from any part of the world would inevitably produce a similar profound reaction among American people in every part of the nation...