Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposed system numbers the anatomical site of the disease, and the cause thereof. Identified first is the body part, then the cause. If the cause is unknown, the effect of the disease is noted. Thus: the digestive tract is numbered 6, the stomach (a subdivision of the digestive tract) 64; 2 is a disease due to intoxicants, 3 identifies alcohol as the intoxicant. Hence 64-23 precisely describes digestive tract-stomach-poisoning by alcohol, or what is otherwise called alcoholic gastritis...
...reserves. It has girded itself for future growth, spending $7,000,000 on improving Weirton Steel's plants, in addition to the $25,000,000 program in Ecorse. Recently it incorporated Mid-West Steel to build a $50,000,000 plant on a 1,100-acre tract at Gary...
...articles, was that the Department of the Interior, under heavy political pressure, had backed down on its interpretation of the mining laws so far as to validate worthless land claims of oil companies in Colorado. Under the old law a locator could secure full title to a 160-acre tract from the U. S. by paying $2.50 per acre, spending $100 per year on "development," proving substantially that he had discovered oil (or mineral) on his land. In 1920 Congress passed an act which substituted leasing for sale of public oil land to private interests. When the leasing act became...
Died. Isabella ("Pansy") Macdonald Alden, 88, Christian tract writer since the age of 8; after long illness, at Palo Alto, Calif...
...medicine. President William Gerry Morgan of the Association has excerpts from that file in his fashionable offices on I Street, Washington. Some evenings he takes them to his home around the corner to study, or to his office at Georgetown University, where he lectures on diseases of the digestive tract...