Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unprecedented ambitious legislation has been accomplished so smoothly and subtlety that the press was firmly won over to a commitment which it is now almost impossible to renounce. It will be some time yet before the full significance of what has happened since March will be realized. N.I.R.A. has teeth. Papers and even radical journals have abandoned plain speaking and not only because circulation would drop. The administration which one no longer thinks of as democratic but rather as Roosevelt has been granted powers which exceed those of war time...
...knew was far deeper than the reasons given. Mr. Moffett, friend of Franklin Roosevelt since Wartime days, a stanch supporter of his for the presidency and in the New Deal, has urged the Administration to take a hand in the oil industry, force upon it a code with teeth to regulate prices and production. On this point he has been long at odds with Mr. Teagle and Standard's Chairman W. S. Parish (he first submitted his resignation to them early in June). To this he referred last week saying, "My views as to the policies to be pursued...
Between Goose Creek Mountains and Snake River in southernmost Idaho lies Oakley, a farming town of 882 on a feeder line of the Union Pacific. Remote, obscure Oakley last week became an important place on the world's medical map. Investigators have definitely proved that what mottled the teeth of Oakley children, by injuring the buds which lay down enamel for the permanent teeth, was fluorine in the drinking water. The teeth looked chalky, were pitted and stained with yellow spots...
...Mottled teeth mar the mouths of children in more than 100 U. S. localities from Talent, Ore. to Conway, S. C., Dental Surgeon Henry Trendley, Dean of the U. S. Public Health Service stated last week. Oakley became aware of the disfigurement in the early 1920's. Children who lived outside town had good teeth. Dentists Frederick S. McKay of Manhattan and H. B. Smith of Jerome, Idaho, suspected drinking water which Oakley residents secured from new wells in the hills. This water contained six parts of fluorine to the million. Well water on outlying farms, where the children...
...Zeldman) is a thin slice of life among the Malay pearl divers, made by Ward Wing and his wife. Lori Bara, sister of Theda Bara. When they went to Samarang, the Wings were fortunate enough to find, first of all, a native girl too poor to have her teeth covered with gold. She was Sai-Yu, a 17-year-old dancer in a Malay theatre. Her father did not want her to act in cinema but since she was under contract to the local theatre, his objections made no difference. They discovered also a handsome young native named Ahmang, part...