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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Medical Superintendent of the huge plant for 25 years was Dr. Karl Albert Meyer. A practical old-school surgeon, Dr. Meyer never required the hospital's army of interns to attend postgraduate classes or lectures, insisted that all young doctors fresh from college needed was "a heavy dose of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Misery Harbor | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

But last week they finally changed their minds, paid both sides off. Terms: 1) Dr. Meyer was marched upstairs to the post of "medical superintendent of all county institutions"; 2) Cook County was promised reinstatement on the A.M.A.'s list sometime around Jan. 1; 3) Surgeon Charles Marshall Davison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Misery Harbor | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

> Last week, the Department of Labor's all-commodity index, whose war-boom peak had been 79.5, slid to 79.1. The New York Journal of Commerce's more sensitive index (autumn peak: 82.4) was down to 80.9.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: For Pessimists | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

But in spite of their boom, furniture manufacturers were not cheery. They believed that retailers were stocking up faster than the public was buying. They feared that raw material prices would rise, boosting prices and nipping the industry's little boomlet. They gloomed that if World War II brings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Not War | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

> A few weeks after headgear is brought out as the new thing, it may be old hat. "Millinery . . . has no intrinsic value at all. . . ."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Mad Hatters | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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