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In the spring of 1936 Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings announced that the Department of Justice would investigate complaints of price-fixing. Presently a Federal grand jury began sitting in Madison, chosen because Wisconsin is the most centrally located of the ten States in question, because all but two of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mamma Spank | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

The most surprising fact about the U. S. artificial limb business is not that it is a $6,000,000 industry engaging 300 firms, but that no less than 58% of U. S. manufacturers wear artificial limbs themselves. Last week when the Association of Limb Manufacturers of America met on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Peg Legs | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

There are 350,000 legless or armless people in the U. S. and another 35,000 are crippled annually by automobile accidents, railroad accidents and infectious diseases (in order of frequency). Many manufacturers got into the business by losing limbs, and most of their companies are located in or near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Peg Legs | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Infantile paralysis last week pursued the course of what medical men still described as a ''mild epidemic." In Chicago, where there were 228 cases, health and education officials still refused to open schools. In Philadelphia, an 11-year-old sufferer was brought to a city hospital from Williamsport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Lungs for Old | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

One of the great discoveries of modern genetics is that certain hereditary characters are linked to the sex factor. Males manufacture two kinds of spermatozoa, one bearing a y-chromosome, the other an x-chromosome. If a y-chromosome spermatozoon happens to penetrate the female ovum, the get is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nottingham Lace | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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