Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Babies and hospitals made the headlines in Manhattan. When Dr. Robert Arthur Wilson of Brooklyn reported that he got 400 stillborn babies to breathe by injecting a drug called alpha-lobeline hydrochloride into the vein of their umbilical cords while they were held upside down, fellow obstetricians pounced upon him. Objection No. 1: Dr. Wilson used a drug which the A.M.A. has not approved. His retort: "We must not let babies die just because the A.M.A. has not approved the drug." Objection No. 2: He did not first try such standard methods of stimulating breath in the newborn as blowing...
...McGill University zoologists, came upon a Quebec "family of little women" none of whom was more than four and a half feet tall. They were all well-proportioned, strong, vigorous and promiscuous. For cohabitants they invariably selected little men by whom they bred little children. This family drew a report in last week's Eugenical News...
Railroad men prefer to write annual reports almost exclusively with figures. Though he may be baffled by such things as average gross tons per freight-locomotive mile or average cars per passenger-train mile, an inquisitive stockholder may learn how many hopper-bottom gondolas he owns or what percentage of main and branch lines are laid with 131-lb. rails. As conservative as the roads themselves, official statements are perennially drab in format. Last week Union Pacific broke its tradition of severe grey covers by dressing up its annual report for 1935 with a picture of a streamlined locomotive with...
What Chairman William Averell Harriman had to say to his stockholders, however, was bigger news. In his report he outlined a series of new U. P. services that mark one of the few smart steps any railroad has yet taken toward regaining lost passenger traffic. Able son of an able father, William Averell Harriman has been familiar with his heritage since he worked in U. P.'s Omaha shops during vacations from Yale. Long a director, he was made board chairman in 1932. One of the first things new Chairman Harriman realized was that railroads are susceptible to smart...
...magnificent piece of engineering capable of 600 shots per minute. Other arms are manufactured and also automobiles, but the machine gun is the product that really enabled Hotchkiss & Cie. to earn as much as 23,500,000 francs in the late 1920's. Last year's report has not yet been published, but it is expected to reveal complete recovery from the depression low of 12,000,000 francs. In terms of U. S. corporations Hotchkiss is small but tightly autonomous. Managing Director Benet has not only been able to show a better return on his capital than...