Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME Feb. 28: "Passed a bill writing off as unrecoverable $2,500,000,000 (loans to railroads, banks, insurance companies and special State funds) from the books of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation...
...write as one of the "Forgotten Men" who feels that James is the recipient of sufficient special privilege from the hands of his presidential father, and that TIME need not award him a degree from Harvard...
...Vitamin B 1 has a special affinity for and healing action upon diseased nerve tissue, and its efficacy in treating nerve inflammation associated with alcoholism is spectacular (TIME, Jan. 17). In the A. M. A. Journal last week Dr. George R. Cowgill of Yale declared that the vitamin seemed to help in the metabolism of carbohydrates by acting as a coenzyme. Other than that it seemed to have no effect on normal organs, and overdoses did not hurt a normal body. The human system simply took what it needed and threw away the rest...
...some $120,000,000 in emergency freight rates granted in the Depression, 2) by a tremendous drop in traffic during the current Recession (net operating income of Class I U. S. roads was off 82% in January this year). Last fall the ICC granted rate rises on special commodities (like motors and accessories) totaling some $70,000,000, but the roads immediately declared this insufficient, petitioned for 15% more. This would have given them an estimated $447,000,000 added income. Last week's decision, by ICC estimate will provide $270,000,000, by Association of American Railroad...
Between 80 and 90 men, exclusive of surveyors, carpenters and special tradesmen, have been working on the excavation. Under favorable circumstances, the building should be finished by the end of this calendar year, thus allowing for the proposed opening of the School in February...