Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual spring appearance of the common housefly seemed the right time for Professor Stanley Barron Freeborn of the University of California to report the color preferences of that ubiquitous pest. It appeared that fly paper should be bright orange, a shade all flies like best; that tablecloths should be pale green, the least liked color. Dr. Freeborn, specialist in sheep & poultry parasites, conducted his housefly balloting by exposing a big rectangular board divided into squares of different colors, counting the number of insects which alighted on each (without taking repeaters into account). The vote: orange, 10,572; primrose yellow...
...Purpose of the Life Extension Institute was to give thoroughgoing medical examinations to all comers at $15 and up. Licensed doctors employed by the Life Extension Institute would make the examinations. The examinee had the privilege of three extra urinalyses within the year without extra charge. His medical report would be his private property to hide from his wife or show to his personal physician as he pleased. The Life Extension Institute would not treat his ailments nor tell him specifically what was wrong...
...publication. In Detroit last week staff men of the Henry Ford Hospital told the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology about a hot box designed by Dr. Walter Malcolm Simpson of Dayton and President Charles Franklin Kettering of General Motors Research Corp. From Dayton Dr. Simpson published a report in last week's American Journal of Surgery about his success with a hot water bag which Dr. Charles Robert Elliott of Seattle-San Francisco-&-Manhattan invented for treating the diseased female pelvis...
Last week the Crop Reporting Board of the Department of Agriculture gave its second answer for 1935. U. S. farmers had planted 44,306,000 acres in winter wheat last autumn, said the report. Drought and dust had forced them to abandon 12,405,000 acres. The wheat standing on the remaining 31,901,000 acres on April 1 was estimated to yield 435,499,000 bu.- 69% of normal. That was slightly more than last year's yield, but far below the 618,000,000-bu. average of the last five years. East of the Mississippi, and particularly...
...delay in putting the directors' action on the news ticker, with the result that Baldwin's home town of Philadelphia got a one-hour jump on Wall Street in the scramble to unload Baldwin securities. On the second count, SEC found that Baldwin's 1933 annual "report "misled the investing public" because the directors' action, "evidencing an impaired working capital position, came as a surprise to the investing public rather than as the acceptance of a situation long in the making...