Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sulfanilamide are puerperal sepsis (childbed fever), gonorrhea, meningitis, and streptococcus sore throat. Last week in The Lancet Dr. Sidney Campbell Dyke, consulting pathologist at the Royal Hospital at Wolverhampton, and his assistant, Dr. G. C. K. Reid, reported that tablets of a new sulfanilamide compound, M. & B. 693, short for 2-(para-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine, had brought about a "speedy recovery" in eight cases of lobar pneumonia...
...because industry just does not want to borrow, despite interest rates at record lows. Practically every other avenue to bank profits is similarly closed. Underwriting is forbidden, pinched volume on the stockmarket has reduced security and brokerage loans, the huge flow of gold, which has to be invested in short-term loans for liquidity, produces virtually no income (interest on 91-day Treasury bills, for example, is only .027%). The few big banks doing well today are those like Chicago's Continental Illinois National and New York's Manufacturers Trust, which have gone whole hog into buying Government...
Frank Buchman (Sun. II a. m. MBS). Oxford Group's founder and leader speaks by short wave from London on "Moral Rearmament...
...final irony of Coolidge's life was that he began to catch up on his times only when he was out of office. Retired to Northampton, turning out his autobiography at $5 a word and a short syndicated column at $3.25 a word, brooding disgustedly over Hoover's shortcomings, watching his gilt-edged investments sink lower & lower, Coolidge at last confessed private doubt that "the business of America is business." "In other periods of depression," he admitted, "it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope...
...long trip for the Dartmouth football team to make. But they were in a sense upholding the honor of the east against a weak coast outfit. This was the third in a series of Dartmouth-Stanford engagements, and on both previous occasions the Easterners came out on the short end of the stick. This time, beaten only once, the Green looked like a sure bet over the six times vanquished coasters...