Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Antarctic explorer, seems to thrive on trouble, and if he got off on an expedition without something going wrong he might regard it as an ill omen. This month the Admiral starts his third trip to the Antarctic, partly backed by U. S. Treasury funds, to clinch the claims of the U. S. to some 450,000 ice-covered square miles. Last week enough mishaps befell his huge new "snow cruiser" to convince him that everything was going to be all right...
There are dozens of magazines competing for the U. S. farmer's hard-earned dollar. Third in circulation this year was Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.'s Country Home, with 1,648,000 readers. (First was the newly-merged Farm Journal & Farmer's Wife with 2,475,000.) Selling to subscribers at 25? a year, Country Home had long struggled to break even. But in advertising revenues it was way behind: with "5,000 in the first nine months of 1939, it stood sixth on a list that Country Gentleman led with...
Purpose of his operation is to prevent this "reverse action" of the sympathetic system, and short-circuit erratic nerve impulses rushing to the heart. After exhaustive study, and drafting of innumerable blueprints, he decided to cut through the third, fourth and fifth ribs close to the spinal column, snip free and short-circuit the four nerves of the sympathetic system (between the second and fifth vertebrae) which lead directly to the heart. With exquisite care Dr. Raney avoided damaging other surrounding tissues, left enough nerves intact so that the patient could feel the "warning signal" of angina. Thus, although free...
...plans already outlined: > Companies in the Electric Bond and Share system have budgeted $80,000,000 of new construction for 1940 ($66,000,000 authorized this year). > Wendell Willkie's Commonwealth & Southern system (which two weeks ago sold more property to TVA-at a loss of about one-third on book value) is spending an extra $22,000,000 over & above its normal $33,000,000 a year. > Duke Power Co., which powers 7,000,000 cotton spindles (25% of those working in the U. S.), is spending $8,000,000 on an 80,000 kilowatt plant...
...first seven months of 1939 was 258,000,000 yen. To replace German imports, to get deliveries before the Allies buy the output of U. S. factories, and before the U. S.-Japan trade treaty expires next January, the Japanese have boosted their U. S. purchases by approximately one-third. That put Japan on the spot...