Word: results
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Month ago, financial writer and Lecturer L. Merle Hostetler decided that business men's "confidential" news letters were too gloomy, began experimenting with a letter of his own "openly and avowedly a resume of only the favorable features in the outlook for trade, industry and finance." Result was Hostetler's Good News Letter. With a suddenly bullish stockmarket. Good News had plenty of good news for this week...
...Angeles Superior Court. Sandra Martin, ex-secretary of pert, pouty Cinemactress Simone Simon, pleaded guilty to forging Miss Simon's name to three checks, cashing them. Chief result of Miss Martin's plea: disappointment in Hollywood, whose curious citizenry had hoped Miss Martin would give in court the name of Miss Simon's male friend to whom she had presented, last Christmas, gold keys to her house. Snapped Pleader Martin: "You'll never know who got them...
Some physiologists believe that sleep is the result of chemical changes in the blood. Professor Alexei Dmitrievich Speransky who has Irina & Galina in charge and reported on her to the Gorki All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine, thinks he has contradictory evidence. Irina & Galina's two heads share the same blood stream, but they wink, blink & nod off to sleep at different times. Sleep, reasons the professor, as did his celebrated predecessor, Ivan Pavlov, must be a nervous phenomenon...
...each brand's flavoring mixture is a trade secret, but the basis for all flavoring is rum. Only other ingredient cigaret companies reveal is a hygroscopic agent mixed with the tobacco to attract moisture. In most cigarets the hygroscopic agent is glycerin; Philip Morris uses diethylene glycol. The result, it claims, with substantiation from many a doctor, is less irritation to the membranes of the throat...
...would continue to be the making of profits (for 1937: $4,100,909). Observers who have had their eye on Mr. Brown's concern for social responsibilities (TIME, March 21) put Dr. Jessup's appointment down as a well-meaning gesture, waited to see what the practical result...