Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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There are still a few fundamentalists left who repudiate the doctrine that men and apes evolved from a common primate stock. Harvard's Earnest Albert Hooton thinks the shoe should be on the other foot. "Any respectable ape," he writes, ''would repudiate the imputation of a common ancestry with man." Much publicized, highly controversial Anthropologist Hooton has a high regard for gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, etc.; an increasingly low regard for the social and biological status of man. Last week the dismal state of humanity lifted his talent for caustic castigation to new heights...
...Doctors have never taken much stock in antiseptic gargles except as soothers. In fact, many consider plain hot water just as good as a fancy mixture. Last fortnight the Lancet reported a "totally unexpected" indictment of aspirin gargles. Quoting laboratory studies, they reported that "appreciable quantities of the calcium of the teeth go into solution when an aspirin gargle is used. . . . Over a number of years [the gargle] might well result in permanent damage to the teeth." However, the Lancet added, the teeth are unharmed if equal quantities of bicarbonate of soda are dissolved with aspirin...
...Most stock-minded followers of U. S. business judge companies by the dollars they earn for each share of their common stock. But steelmen have a score card all their own for the performance of each of the U. S.'s 15 leading steel companies. This is the dollars each earns per ton of ingot-making capacity...
...Brazilian rich men, reorganized in 1932. After the reshuffle his two pals were out, a Brazilian was president, Jim technical manager-and the largest stockholder. The new company soon pulled out of the red, paid its first dividend (2%) in 1934. And 10,000 shares of Lojas 7% "guaranteed" stock, which Jim could not sell in 1929, now pays...
Going a step farther than fundamentals which still repudiate the doctrine that men and apes come from common primate stock. Hooton thinks the shoe ought to be on the other foot. "Any respectable ape," he writes, "would repudiate the imputation of a common ancestry with...