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...complaint said that the defendants had managed the sales of nearly 69% of some $20 billion worth of securities issued by the syndicate method (several houses working together) in the last ten years. They did so, the Government charged, by 1) eliminating competition among themselves; 2) preventing the use of competitive bidding for new issues; 3 ) influencing and controlling the corporations issuing securities; 4) concentrating the business in Manhattan; 5) promoting expansions, mergers, consolidations, etc., to drum up more investment business...
Diarrhea (sometimes called "summer complaint") kills because it drains the baby's body of water and salts. Doctors have tried to prevent dehydration by feeding the victims large amounts of saline fluids, but this treatment did not help much. Something was needed-some substance that made it possible for babies to retain the fluids. After long study, Pediatrician Daniel C. Darrow, of Yale's School of Medicine, decided that potassium was the important substance; the old treatments were not using enough of it. Babies with diarrhea sometimes lose one-fourth of the potassium in their body cells...
...only complaint here, can be on what is left out. Omissions include not only specific pieces of importance, but also the philosophy behind them. Schumann's work follows a unique pattern of development which is extremely important for a comprehension of his ideas. Opus numbers 1-22 are all for piano solo; the year of his engagement to Clars Week was, in his own words, "song year," when he composed around 150 songs, some of them of incomparable beauty. This, on a similar basis, was followed by symphonic year, chamber music year, and so on. This growth provides a pattern...
...main grievance concerned the time a pilot had to put in on "standby" duty apart from regular flying time. Actually, the grievance was a minor point. The union's chief complaint was that A.O.A. had not given its bargaining agents enough authority to come to terms, that company officials were "stalling." After bargaining for 20 months, the union had voted in August to strike if agreement was not soon reached. American Overseas replied that Behncke had walked out on the negotiations and that it would not negotiate until the pilots went back to work. To back up these words...
Commentator Upton Close, whose fourth wife, Julia, lately sued him for divorce, complaining that he carried on with his secretary, sued back and made his own complaint. Julia was always interfering in his business affairs, said he, and, further, she had hit him a couple of times...