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...preventive value of bismuth for syphilis was made clear in the 1920s by Dr. M. E. Sonnenberg of Poland, who gave bismuth injections to prostitutes for five years, obtained 95% protection. For the past ten years, fierce Dr. Paul John Hanzlik and his co-workers at Stanford University have been working to put bismuth into practical anti-syphilis pills. Recently they settled on a soluble sodium bismuthate compound which they called "sobisminol." Last week in the American Journal of Syphilis, Gonorrhea and Venereal Diseases they were able to publish an impressive summary of results...
...cumulative net profit of $75,526,077. It managed to do this in spite of the fact that its most important market collapsed soon after the decade began. This was the utility industry, which had been spending $740,000,000 a year for new electrical plants in the 1920s, cut its buying down to an average of $340,000,000 from...
...business came from utilities and industrial users of heavy electrical equipment. Within the last few weeks, private utilities have stepped up their 1940 construction schedules by 20%, to over 1,520,000 kilowatts-which should bring new utility capital outlays to within striking distance of the average for the 1920s. Installations scheduled for 1941 and 1942 are up over 1,000,000 kw., now total 2,877,150 kw. (including municipal & Governmental additions: 5,802,100kw...
...Keynoter Bankhead's suggestion that Mr. Willkie, his power-company past, the Republicans, and the boom-mad '20s were all tied up in one dirty package. Said Nominee Willkie: "I found myself in complete agreement with Speaker Bankhead in his condemnation of the speculative orgies of the 1920s. ... I have always thought that such speculation was to be condemned, whether it was in the securities of utility companies, vending-machine companies ... or gambling in . . . German marks." Correspondents instantly remembered that Franklin Roosevelt in 1928 was briefly involved in an ill-starred vending-machine venture, had previously dabbled...
...early 1920s Delaney was back in the U. S. managing a tour for the Our Gang kids. In & out of the U. S. frequently, Delaney, always reticent about his personal life, was something of a mystery man even to his close friends. In 1934 he published his first book, The Lady By Degrees, followed it next year with The Charm Girl, advertised as the "scream-line correspondence of a radio charmer and her girl friend." Typical sentence: "Remember darling, you can't always judge a man by how he looks as by where he glances, which sometimes makes...