Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convictions while so many of his opponents spar in the political ring for punches designed to slam through the front pages. He must be doing all right for himself, because the shadows in the dark, slimy political alleys continue to try to smear him with the wornout, age-old charges never proved, but kept alive by the followers of Hiss, Truman, Rayburn and others who have dedicated themselves to the vilification of this man of destiny...
...wits. After finally wooing Denny into the hospital and extracting the bone, Pediatrician Roth decided to focus on adolescents. He got help from his old training school, Children's Hospital in Boston, where Dr. James Roswell Gallagher set up the country's first teen-age clinic in 1952, now has four hospital floors serving 600 patients a month. With Gallagher's advice. Roth set up the second such clinic at the Kaiser Medical Center, where the case load has leaped from 25 patients a month to 300. Other clinics have since been started in Philadelphia, Denver...
Biggest single age group in the clinic's range from eleven to 21 is made up of baffled, questioning 14-year-olds, who seem hardest hit by adolescence. Nearly a third of their complaints have no medical basis. But not all are so simply psychosomatic as those of the boy whose serious headaches began when his father remarried shortly after the death of his mother -who had similar headaches. Many surface complaints turn up real trouble: vague pains sometimes signal diabetes, tumors, infections, heart disease...
...steelmen report that 10% of all capacity-and 20% of all new orders -is on a rush basis, about as high as the industry can go. With production currently up a bit to 50%, steelmen forecast an upsurge of ten percentage points in the next eight weeks. Said Iron Age magazine: "This is brave talk. Yet some steelmen think it is a conservative estimate...
Cash from Canada. Early in the 1950s, the Mackles started to woo a new market: persons at or near retirement age. In a market survey, they found that 68% of older Americans were willing to retire in Florida and that their incomes averaged $160 a month. The Mackles felt they could put up a house priced for such a small income, but they lacked the bankroll to swing a nationwide promotion. To get it, they teamed with Canadian Financier Louis Chesler, 45, who had rolled up a fortune by underwriting mining promotions. Chesler has poured in about...