Word: suffer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Institutions which buy bonds with the idea of holding them to maturity would not suffer from lower prices. The suckers would be those who bought at high levels and who decided to sell during a national boom, when interest rates are generally high, bond prices low. Investment bankers are thinking about that type of investor already. Fortnight ago in Manhattan, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.'s Hugh Knowlton wound up a speech to the Financial Advertisers with a highly logical argument for future use. This smart, sharp-nosed young banker, who was trained in the law and got into finance...
...only half warranted, that nine out of 20 victims of heart attacks survive a number of years. In the Journal of the American Medical Association Dr. Willius presented table after table of statistics taken from the Mayo Clinic's records of cardiac patients. These revealed that people who suffer an attack of coronary thrombosis between the ages of 30 and 40 have excellent chances of survival. This record contradicts "the comment frequently heard that coronary thrombosis in the early age periods is likely to be fatal, because . . . the heart is unprepared for the accident...
Seven men suffer coronary thrombosis to one woman. Women are stricken later in life than men. A first attack kills them more often than it does men. But, if a woman survives such a heart attack, she may expect to live three years longer than a man similarly stricken and surviving. Dr. Willius finds it "difficult to understand the reasons for the great discrepancy in incidence of coronary thrombosis between the two sexes. After a critical analysis of the known factors, one is obliged to seek a possible explanation in the presumable superior biologic heritage of the female...
...spends for Japanese cotton cloth, Japan spends about $110,000,000 per year for U. S. raw cotton. Last week news of the U. S. tariff boost caused Yoshihisa Shikamura, managing director of Japan's great Fuji Gas Spinning Co., to exclaim: "Our cotton industry will suffer a severe blow, and it is necessary to take immediate countermeasures. It would be impossible to prohibit all American cotton imports, but we can reduce them by 20% or 30%, by substituting cotton from Egypt, Brazil, Manchukuo and China...
...know quite well that when inflation of the kind and character embodied in the Frazier-Lemke Act is adopted, commodity prices rise but wages stand still. We cannot subscribe to this sort of eco-nomic philosophy. Labor would suffer reduction in living standards, reduced buying power, and the problem of unemployment would become more acute...