Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rural South eat nothing but salt pork, corn meal and molasses. Their members are frequent victims of that painful deficiency disease, pellagra, with its attendant diarrhea, dementia, dermatitis. Physicians have known for nearly 25 years that small amounts of green vegetables and milk will forestall the disease. But still pellagra continues. In its advanced stages it has been considered incurable, since the patients are unable to ingest the necessary kinds of food...
...generally passed this off as a "technical correction," Wall Street's way of saying that prices which had gone ahead faster than Recovery were dropping back to fall in line with the industrial trend. Meanwhile, business indices indicated no serious relapse into Depression. Steel production last week was still about 40% of capacity; carloadings were down 8% from the previous week; automobile output at 13,790 units was the year's lowest. Counterbalancing such statistics, power production climbed to the highest point since January, bank debits rose 10%. Detroit wires hummed with thousands of telegrams ordering laid...
...have paradoxically countered falling industrial production, a slight improvement has set in. . . . Only in Scandinavia is business maintained at a high level, but even there certain signs of a recession in investment activity have appeared. The recession has gathered way in the Low Countries; and the Far East must still be counted out of the commercial ring. Elsewhere, mainly in the British countries and Latin America, trade is just hobbling along, as it was earlier in the year...
...Spain, China, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Germany, Rumania, Japan, Poland. In Shanghai the war cost it 10,525 of its 50,000 phones, but most have since been regained. In Spain, where I. T. & T. has an investment of $67,000,000, about one-fifth its total, the system is still in good order because both Rightists and Leftists need it, but whether I. T. & T. will ever again get the $3,000,000 annual profit it used to make is no more certain than the war's outcome...
...Scott's advertising has been persistent and effective, if somewhat outspoken. In 1932 this advertising reached a pinnacle, which Scott officials recall with obvious pain, in the "acid campaign," whose headlines took the slant of "I'VE GOT TO HAVE *** A MINOR OPERATION!'' Current campaigns still stress "harsh tissue dangers" but somewhat less crassly. A sample comic-strip ad today shows little Jeanie prattling, "It scratches awful, mummy...