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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Physical Exercise & Health. One hour's exercise a day for a week increases the capacity of the lungs and their ability to transfer oxygen from the air to the lungs. The maximum result develops in five to six weeks of such exercise. If after such period physical exercise is neglected altogether, the gain in power lasts for several months.?Connecticut's Edward Christian Schneider and Gordon C. Ring...
Before Schenectady became The Electric City the new General Electric quarters there were a firetrap. No Smoking signs were placed around. Enraged, Steinmetz marched home, sent a note: "No smoking, no Steinmetz." Result: thereafter he alone smoked...
...native State's whiskey from the pioneers to the Prohibitionists, Author Cobb betrays some knowledge. Excerpt: "Just about the time they first began making red likker here in Kentucky, which was back in pioneer days, there was a craze on for French names among our people. As a result there's a Bourbon County and a Fayette County and a town named Paris and a town named Versailles . . . so maybe they named it [red likker] for Bourbon County...
...result has been that in the last eight years Squibb's net profit has multiplied seven times in spite of expenditures of $14,000,000 for research. Sales last year were over $13,000,000, net profit $1,368,300. Squibb customers number some 700 physicians' supply houses and wholesalers, 700 boards of health, 1,300 medical clinics, 5,000 hospitals, 27,000 retail druggists...
Business men hastened to speculate on reasons for the new combination. Most obvious seemed the desire to bring new financial power into United Cigar Co. and Tobacco Products Corp., whose earnings were depressed as a result of price lowering of popular brand cigarets to compete with price-cutting chain stores. From a high this year of 27 3/8, United Cigar stock had dropped last week to 15 5/8. Likewise Tobacco Products Corp. experienced a drop, from the year's high of 22 5/8 to a closing last week...