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Biochemists were no sooner positive of the hormone-vitamin relationship in the growing processes, than they discovered a sterol-like substance in coal tar which causes certain kinds of cancer. Cancer is a form of growth, but unregulated. The cancerogenic coal tar "sterol" causes the same sex changes in rats as does the hormone theelin. The breasts and uterus are common sites of cancer, and many an investigator has suspected a sex hormone as a possible cause. Knowledge of growth, hormones and vitamins are becoming interlaced to the biochemist's delight. He is confident that from them...
...business-$70,000,000 of them had gone back in by 1917. The market value of its stock, largely Mellon owned, was $150,000,000. Just at the beginning of the War Mellon also bought Kopper Co. which turned into a gold mine with the war demand for coal tar products for explosives. Millions added to millions-the best part of the $2,000,000,000 fortune of the Mellons had already been assembled. In 1921 Pennsylvania's politicians pressed Mr. Harding to name "America's second richest man" Secretary of the Treasury. If the announcement had been...
...Washington, before 9:00 a. m. one day last week, Henry B. Sawyer, member of the advisory board of Massachusetts Investors Trust, and Trustee Merrill Griswold entered the sweltering, ramshackle, stucco-and-tar-paper building of the Federal Trade Commission. They trudged upstairs and settled down to wait before a certain door in the second-floor hall. When the door opened they marched in and delivered three bundles of documents, each describing $5,000,000 worth of securities which their company wished to issue...
Dusk was coming as the Vagabond descended from his airy left to the hot street where the tar oozed around his thin shoes and covered over the spots he had neglected to polish. Now, as he turned down Plympton Street to the river, a hot draft of air singed his eyelashes, and as he passed the back doors of restaurants the smell of greases caught on his coat, till the next gust blew them off again, and he hurried on. At the river he would find a plot of grass from which he might dangle his feet into the water...
...Indianapolis Speedway was built of a dirt, sand and tar mixture in 1909, rebuilt of brick in 1910 by Carl Fisher, later famed for his promotions at Miami and Montauk Point, and the late James Allison of Allison Engineering Co., to accommodate a top speed of 80 m.p.h. Automobile speeds have so increased that no car may now race at the Speedway unless it can go 100 m.p.h. The track is graded at 45° on the turns, 20° on the short straightaways, flat on the stretches. The only attempt to improve it since it was built was just...