Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beriberi is an unfamiliar disease in the western world and Vitamin B 1 is so widely dispersed among staple articles of diet that B 1 deficiency is not especially common. In the lay mind it has been overshadowed lately by the "anti-infective" Vitamin A (fish oil, spinach, carrots, milk, butter, etc.), the anti-scurvy Vitamin C (orange juice, lettuce, celery, etc.) and the antirachitic Vitamin D (fish oil, egg yolks, irradiated foods, etc.). These are of acknowledged importance to human health. But the fact is that doctors are using "the forgotten vitamin," B 1 , in clinical treatment of sick...
...Europe has the same political face as in 1914, it will probably react to it in the same way. Germany lacks colonies, so she claims, and economic necessities. In western Czechoslovakia are not only three million Germans but deposits of coal and iron. Sitting in Vienna and trying to soothe II Duce with the words "I shall never forget this day." Hitler must be wetting his lips over the proximity of Czechoslovakia. But, superb timer that he is, he will wait, it may be a month, it may be two before he again moves. Meanwhile, Italy will debate on whether...
Eastern's system would be a magnificent addition to Transcontinental & Western Air, whose slim East-West line from New York to Los Angeles needs North-South feeders. Last month, therefore, John Hertz and his associates in Lehman Brothers offered to buy it for $3,250,000 ($1,000,000 cash, rest in notes). It so happens that North American Aviation is controlled by General Motors Corp. through ownership of nearly 30% of its stock. The various Hertz truck and bus lines are General Motors' valued customers and shrewd Financier Hertz knew G. M. would think twice before snubbing...
Grown each year on the Gold Coast of Western Africa are enough beans for half the world's supply of cocoa-270,000 tons. The cocoa farms are run by native tribesmen, black as a tinker's pot and quick to catch on about the law of supply and demand. In 1930 it occurred to them to do something about prices. Cocoa was so low on world markets that working on the farm didn't seem worth their while. In a few months much West African cocoa land was jungle again, and the price of cocoa went...
...dullest chapters of her book. Long (488 pages), overcrowded with the names of poets, A Poet's Life seems both tired and genteel, as if Harriet Monroe had made a last attempt to make her vehement, impoverished, helter-skelter poets intelligible and respectable to plain middleclass, middle-Western citizens, but found their careers as contradictory as their poems...