Word: rich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy's clean-up man in Louisiana, Assistant Attorney General Oetje John Rogge, collared one of the Big Three. In New Orleans' Federal Court, slick, new-rich Seymour Weiss was convicted of using the mails to defraud, fined $2,000, sentenced to 30 months in prison. Convicted with him were Louisiana State University's ex-President James Monroe Smith, who must answer to 38 other charges and indictments; Dr. Smith's wife's nephew, John Emory Adams; and Louis C. LeSage, a previously suspended executive of Standard...
...other yellow men's attacks were now too busy even to do that. By innocence, weakness, timidity, China had got herself in for what promised to be a furious autumn campaign. Last week the campaign began. The theatre: South China. The tactic: a flanking movement to cut the rich rump of China from every blood supply...
...Prize that Walther von Brauchitsch had won for Germany was, from a military standpoint, well worth its cost in men and machines. "At almost the precise moment" that England blockaded Germany, as Field Marshal Goring remarked last fortnight, Germany got her hands on Poland's rich coal fields. Poland's production of 36,000,000 tons a year will increase the Reich's coal supply to some 220,000,000 tons-if she can hold the coal-producing Saar into which France was pushing last week. If France takes or cripples the Saar, Germany will be little...
Germany won an iron & steel industry with an annual output of 2,000,000 tons; some zinc mines (annual production 191,500 tons); and a rich agricultural region producing wheat, rye, barley, oats, potatoes, sugar beets...
...believed that somehow the growth of cancer was related to vitamin deficiency. According to standard laboratory methods, he produced cancers in young mice by coating them with tar for several weeks. The offspring of these mice were fed a diet rich in vitamins A, B, C, D and E. One day, Dr. Davidson found to his surprise that they were no longer susceptible to cancer when tarred. From the tissues of "newly dropped young" of these resistant mice, Dr. Davidson made a boiled filtrate. Injections of this filtrate, plus a high vitamin diet, produced strong cancer resistance in ordinary mice...