Word: united
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...associate professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. Two years later he was made an honorary surgeon of the Royal College of Surgeons. After leaving Johns Hopkins, he went to Harvard where he now is Professor of Surgery. During the War, he served with the Harvard University Medical Unit...
MacMillan's party also heard from Secretary Wilbur of the U. S. Navy. The latter telegraphed to Commander R. E. Byrd of the Navy unit which is cooperating with the explorer, but not under his command, that, unless the three seaplanes taken were equipped with a regulation Navy aero radio set, they were not to take flight from the base ship. If the sets could not be installed, Byrd was to return with his command...
...college year now ended finds the University in an era of expansion, the greatest it has ever known. Growing pains are everywhere manifest. The remodeling of Massachusetts Hall, the erection of new buildings in the Yard, the plans for the new Business School unit, other new dormitories and a new art museum, all indicate that the physical expansion of the University is responding to the demands for more adequate facilities...
Easy money continues to favor mergers and consolidations throughout business in the U. S. One of the latest industries to show this tendency toward the larger unit of management is that concerned with the production of asbestos.* North America produces 85% of the world's asbestos, the remaining 15% coming from South Africa. Practically all the North American output comes from Canada, where many small companies have hitherto operated. Under the tutelage of Dillon, Read & Co., the industry is being reorganized as a single corporation, capitalized at roughly $50,000,000, and embracing eight constituent companies, chief among which...
There is, in fact, great difficulty in saying the stockmarket is so-and-so, since it no longer acts as a unit with any degree of consistency. On a day when one group of stocks?e. g., the oils ?are strong, another group or groups will be weak. Moreover, within a single group of stocks, there are frequently opposite tendencies in the prices of different stocks...