Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this effort increased Postal's share of the total available telegraph business from 17%, to 22%. But the company did not thrive. Deficits were reported for the last four years, and interest charges on $50,000,000 of bonds and debenture stock were met only by liquidating assets and borrowing from I. T. & T. Last week, facing another interest payment July 1, Postal's President George S. Gibbs petitioned the courts for permission to reorganize under Section 77 B of the Bankruptcy Act. So long had Wall Street awaited some formal recognition of Postal's plight that...
Intestinal Worms do not thrive in fresh air. That fact led Lewis W. Butz & Dr. William Alfred LaLande of Philadelphia to make 300 wormy puppies swallow some drugs which released oxygen in their guts. Worms left immediately. The drugs: terpineol, diheptanol peroxide, ozonized olive oil, ozonized cotton seed oil. When the same drugs were poured into a tumbler full of the round worms which infest babies, the worms promptly died. But up to last week Researchers Butz & LaLande had not dared to try the drugs on babies...
...tutoring is a noble calling. It is at once a lifesaving and life-sacrificing employment. . . . The abolition of required mathematics and physics in the Freshman year has had a very depressing effect on the tutoring business; but, notwithstanding this great narrowing of the field, tutoring is a business that thrives today, and doubtless if always will thrive...
Major Selwyn went to work. But he did not get along with Boers or blacks; his cattle did not thrive; he could not afford the guards the Boers maintained against native thievery; and finally his old wound began slowly to paralyze him. Four years ago he quit and his wife took over...
...Corbeil, Ontario the history-making Dionne quintuplets, who were born two months prematurely, continued to thrive in their eighth week (TIME, June 11). Still kept in incubators they wriggled, stretched, arched their backs, waved their limbs and squeaked for food. Montreal mothers sent them 20 oz. of breast milk daily, which Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe last week began to supplement with tomato juice. Mrs. Dionne, who had injured herself by getting out of childbed too soon, was up and about last week...