Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...stockmarkets, or whether the latter merely foresaw the business trend.* Similarly, an endless debate goes on concerning the problem of whether Over-Production was a cause of the Depression or has been merely accentuated by it. To industries already faced with Over-Production. the Depression has been an almost fatal blow. Oil consumption was nearing stability on a basis that allowed for an annual increase of 10%. The 1930 increase will be abnormal and the difference upsets all plans for stability. Too much competition seems to have been at the root of many cases of overproduction. Small competitors cannot afford...
Addison's disease, rare and usually fatal malady which ordinarily colors its victims anywhere from a light yellow to a deep brown and even black, has been treated successfully. Announcement of that important fact came last week from the Long Island Biological Association at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., where Professor Wilbur Willis Swingle of Princeton and Joseph John Pfiffner developed the medicine. It is a purified extract, a hormone, of the suprarenal glands.* Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic have used the extract on some 30 cases of Addison's disease. One case reacted favorably...
...rest of the tribe dances, prays to hundreds of gods to send them many heads. When the warriors arrive in enemy country they construct a small hut for ambush. The first victim to appear has a spear thrown at him. Ifugao etiquet demands that the one who throws the fatal spear gets the head. Other warriors are supposed to stand by and watch while the killer dances over the fallen body, slashes the neck with his long knife, wets his fingers in the spurting blood and tastes it. Actually headhunters often become too enthusiastic, turn the ceremony into a free...
...payment of obligations incurred by the Washington Luis Government since Oct. 3 upon the officials who authorized the expenditures; 3) postulated that, since the Brazilian Congress ceased to exist Oct. 3, whatever it has done since was never done at all-i. e. all laws passed since the fatal date are void; 4) failed to disgorge from prison one Horton Hoover (no relation). U. S. aviator arrested on a charge which remained indefinite last week. The fact that Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson recognized the Revolutionary Government while the Consul General in Sao Paulo was still struggling vainly...
...months, a gain of 12,468,590 mi. over the same period in 1929. There were 930 accidents, one for every 73,839 mi. of flight. In 1929 (spring) there was an accident every 72,612 mi. Schedule transport planes suffered six fatal accidents in 16,902,728 mi. flown?one per 2,817,121 mi., compared with one fatality every 1,022,871 mi. for the same period...