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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Result: the hungry mice, though smaller than the well-fed mice, were more active, hardier, developed less cancer, generally lived much longer. (None of the well-fed mice lived over a year and a half; some of the underfed lived well over two years...
...Affected genes and chromosomes in some Japanese people," he said, "may result in the birth of morons, cripples and deformed progeny in future generations. . . . It is quite possible that these [deformity-producing] recessive genes will gradually be spread throughout Japan...
...short, the defendants, "by their control of the securities business, have been able to substitute banker direction of industry and business for industrial and business management, with the result that industrial initiative and enterprise have been discouraged and new business developments retarded...
...industry was late getting into big production because retailers delayed orders last spring, waiting for lower prices which never came. When the orders finally began pouring in, toy manufacturers, like everyone else, were slowed up by shortages of materials. As a result, the industry has scant hope of bettering its last year's gross of $250 million...
...opening of the National Shoe Fair in Chicago last week. By the time the four-day fair ended, his gloomy prediction was on the way to coming true. Most of the 600-odd manufacturers who attended held out for price increases ranging from 10% to 15%. As a result, purchases by some 12,000 buyers were considerably smaller in physical volume, though not in dollar value. This meant that shoes this winter and spring would be scarcer and higher...