Word: suffered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stimulates the linings of bloodvessels, lymph channels and certain organs to produce substances which defend a person against the disease from which he happens to suffer...
...functions of the Service are projection of films for classes and the production of instructional films; both suffer shoddy competition from certain departments also interested in movie work. Since the Service has no central control, because it lacks official support, these departments are free to purchase movie equipment. Not only are they unable to buy the best, but they make little use of what they get. Most instructors, too, have no knowledge of how to operate such equipment. Eliminating this duplication of effort would mean that the Service could produce a picture free of charge, exclusive of cost of film...
Sixty-three-year-old Henry Fountain Ashurst, U. S. Senator from Arizona, was recuperating in a Washington hospital from a case of shingles. Complained disgruntled Senator Ashurst: "It had ever been my hope, if incapacitated, to suffer from some affliction that might be described by high-sounding sesquipedalian words...
...Assistant Surgeon General, solemn, tight-voiced Raymond Aloysius Vonderlehr, specialist on these diseases, figures that the U. S. has 6,000,000 victims of syphilis, 12,000,000 of gonorrhea. He does not know how many suffer from chancroids. Gonorrhea, he says, afflicts three times as many men, women and children as tuberculosis, four times as many as scarlet fever, 27 times as many as diphtheria, 58 times as many as typhoid, 100 times as many as infantile paralysis...
...Refused to help the hard-pressed telegraph companies, as FCC denied their petition for a 15% rate increase. Like the railroads the U. S. wire companies currently suffer from increased costs, decreased income. In 1937 Western Union made only $3,325,000 on gross of $100,400,000. Postal Telegraph, which is in 77B reorganization, lost about as much on its land line operations. Rate cuts for night letters did little good and so last December the companies asked a fat step-up in domestic rates. Last week FCC gave no reason for saying...