Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anyone's being poisoned by their goods. Miss Kessinger's report also embarrassed Professor Lawrence Turner Fairhall, Harvard chemist, who only two years ago said: "No absorption of lead occurs even under extreme conditions as a result of wearing this material in direct contact with the skin...
Heat & Cold. Dissipation of body heat through the skin pores of itself may produce a common cold, declared William John Kerr and John B. Lagen of the University of California. They agree with other investigators that the environment in which a person happens to be and the way he reacts to that environment are more significant than the germs which enter his system. Also attributable to environment, said the investigators, may be an attack of pharyngitis, laryngitis, bronchitis, even pneumonia...
...exclusive trade of all territories watered by streams flowing into Hudson Bay. No gunshot had ever sounded there and caribou and grizzlies roamed the bleak and ragged wastes undisturbed, when Prince Rupert's little company settled down to business, taking as their motto "Pro Pelle Cutem" (Skin for Skin...
Hugely successful almost from the start, the hardbitten skin traders fought famine and cold, "the feare in the buttocks, . . . the belly empty, the weariness in the bones. . . ." After 14 years the little company startled the world by declaring a 50% dividend. The next year it paid 25%. Then it split its shares three for one and paid 25% on each of the new shares. By 1869 Hudson's Bay Co. felt secure enough to turn over to the Dominion of Canada the title to most of its original grant for ?300,000, keeping only 7,000,000 acres...
...undersigned steel workers who have just listened to your damnable speech, denounce you! You use your government position to call us steel workers who criticize your schemes 'just so much skin off the saddle.' We are done with you and your Steel Institute...