Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lubash, who lectures on urology at Flower Hospital Medical School, had a mercury-vapor quartz bulb made a little larger than a match head. This he attached to a copper wire covered by a silk-wound ureteral catheter and attachable to a high frequency apparatus. Last week was too early to show cures in his work, but he had reason to believe that healing light would work as well in a kidney as anywhere else...
...retaliatory tariffs, embargoes, import quotas, export subsidies, and exchange restrictions which "throttle business enterprise." First objective at London is a tariff truce against more rate uppings. After that, attempts will be made to weed out such quota restrictions as Austria puts on tires and shoes, Belgium on sugar and silk knit goods, Germany on lard and butter. Last week France, sensing a turn in the tide, planned to lift quota restrictions on U. S. radios, asparagus, apples and pears-a move strongly backed by the French wine interests with eyes fixed on the U. S. market after Repeal...
...Voss and his partner L. 0. Dearden, another victim of the crash, were not only dentists but dope smugglers. Working with a former Air Force Officer named Pleass they would take frequent trips from the continent by air, drop packages of dope attached to tiny silk parachutes from the plane windows at pre-arranged spots. According to this story they knew that they were to be arrested when the City of Liverpool landed. Dr. Voss set fire to the plane, cremating his partner and his niece, and jumped on the 1,000-to-1 chance that he might escape with...
...their 28th wedding anniversary President & Mrs. Roosevelt dined two dozen, mostly relatives. Sara Delano Roosevelt, the President's mother, went down from Hyde Park for the party. As it was also St. Patrick's Day, the President wore a green silk handkerchief embroidered with "Happy Days," a green carnation in his lapel. He told friends his green tie was worn...
...beef 2¢ per Ib. Such taxpayers were made eligible to borrow the necessary funds from R. F. C. Processors of farm products for export were to get tax refunds. If the public tried to dodge the tax on cotton, for example, by turning to rayon, silk or linen, the Secretary of Agriculture might place a competitive tax on those substitutes...