Word: underlying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A year ago New York's law makers, enviously noting that California collects some $2,000,000 a year from the 4% tax on the pari-mutuel handle at its race tracks, finally turned a deaf ear to lobbyists, passed (33-To-14 in the Senate, 110-to-36...
Several years ago, they had a hunch that the immature hearts and blood vessels of epileptics did not supply enough oxygen to their brains. Hence the convulsions. This theory fitted in with the general fact that many epileptics do not have any brain abnormalities which might be considered responsible for...
Last week the Association's voluntary insurance scheme, under the leadership of Stanford University's Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, went into operation. The rival plans:
It so happened that the cotton mills had an excellent excuse for slackening their pace-a shortage of cotton. It was a purely man-made shortage, for the U. S. Government holds under loan 11,400,000 bales, enough to keep the U. S. in shirts and skirts, sheets and...
Meanwhile the Museum moved from its five rooms to five floors of a greystone mansion on 53rd Street, in view of the back windows of the Rockefeller home. Membership ($10 a year) shot up by leaps & bounds. The board of trustees became a galaxy of the enlightened rich. Greatest of...