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...medicine owes a great deal of its knowledge about sex practices to Dr. Dickinson. A pioneer in the birth-control movement, he traveled round the world several times, quizzing prostitutes in Berlin, Paris, Shanghai. With Dr. Howard Canning Taylor and such top-flight specialists as Drs. Frederick Clark Holden and Franklin Mar tin as members, he formed the American Gynecological Travel Club, which went all over the U.S. and Europe, observing operations in different clinics, exchanging information on techniques. "In those days," he told some of his admirers last week, "we used to hold a spare knife between our teeth...
...theory does not imply that milk causes cancer. In fact, top-flight Researcher Cornelius Packard Rhoads of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital believes that milk contains a protein substance which helps protect rats against a certain type of cancer produced by chemicals...
This plot, they agree, is retaliation for the Nazi coup of November, 1930 when several top-flight British Secret Service men walked into a trap on the Dutch border...
Stockholders and Wall Streeters found last week's flood of first-quarter reports not all beer and skittles. True, combined profits of 345 top-flight companies (as tabulated by New York's National City Bank) were $377,372,000, up 17½% above 1940's first quarter, best since 1929. But this bare statistic hid many ands, ifs, buts...
With stock yields near a record high, bond yields are scraping an all-time bot tom. Treasury bonds-haven of many a former stockmarket dollar-yield less than 2% compared with 3.6% in 1929, a 5% peak after World War I. Top-flight industrial liens yield only 2.3%, half the 1929 rate. Biggest mystery in Wall Street is why investors will grab the bond of a Government-harassed utility paying $30 on a $1,000 investment, but close tight their checkbooks on Chrysler common, which returns $60 a year on exactly the same outlay...