Word: solvent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nashville Medical School, decided to manufacture drugs for doctors rather than practice medicine himself. His business, established in Bristol, Tenn., grew until it had $300,000 in assets. Then, two months ago, fatality knocked at its door. A new mixture of a new drug (sulfanilamide) with a new solvent (diethylene glycol), which Dr. Massengill's salesmen sold as Elixir Sulfanilamide-Massengill, was discovered to be killing its users (TIME...
...Technically the only solvent usable in an elixir is alcohol. On this technicality alone was the Food & Drug Administration legally able to intervene when the "elixir's" death-dealing qualities became evident...
...vessels launched in the mightiest shipbuilding program in history but a few hundred aging specimens remain." Operating subsidies alone may mount under the present law to $15,000,000 or $20,000,000 per year. With luck and $50,000,000 of taxpayers' money solvent lines may launch 65 ships in the next five years. At the moment, the Commission has $200,000,000 available or earmarked. The report concluded: "We are about to start again, not in a riot of enthusiasm, not with an expenditure of billions, but with a carefully planned program that gives due regard...
...almost astronomical figure to frugal Rutland depositors, that publication of the loss might cause a ruinous run on his bank. With this in mind he gently eased the defaulting bookkeeper out hushed up the fraud, charged the loss to surplus & undivided profits. Consequently the bank pursued a serene, solvent course as did Banker Smith and the discharged bookkeeper. Later that year Banker Smith was elected Lieutenant Governor. In 1934 Vermonters made him Governor. Bookkeeper Cocklin continued as an active member of the Rutland Elks and a power in the American Legion. In July 1935 he was named assistant city treasurer...
This year the Institute is solvent, with 80 member schools, 3,000 students enrolled at $15 a head. Once more the only holdout was Harvard. So heartened by the proceeds of his successful Ball was Board Chairman Kahn that he planned to revive instruction in sculpture and the Manhattan classes abandoned two years...