Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cost: $17 billion between April 1948 and June 1952 (including $600 million for Western Germany). Initial appropriation: $6.8 billion for the first 15 months...
...spring, Round No. 3 would be going full blast. The C.I.O.'s two giants, the steelworkers and the autoworkers, would both go to bat on new contracts in April. The steelworkers' Phil Murray planned to drive hard for an annual wage. The autoworkers' Walter Reuther wanted a price roll-back,* but did not expect to get it. In Washington last week, Reuther said: "What we're after is not dollars but purchasing power. If industry and Congress keep on failing to reduce prices, we will fight on the only front open to us-wages...
...doctors have lately been hearing about a new drug so powerful that it may eventually replace morphine as the standard painkiller. The drug is a German invention that U.S. researchers have variously called amidone, methadon and dolophine (TIME, April 28). It has been under intensive study in scores of U.S. hospitals. Last week the American Medical Association Journal published an encouraging verdict by a team of U.S. Public Health Service investigators. Among other things, amidone has proved helpful in treating morphine addicts...
Wallace was wounded by the Battle of Shiloh as truly as its physical victims. He had acted with great speed and intelligence at the beginning of the Civil War, won promotion handily, justified it in the first battles. Then on April 6, 1862, he was camped at Crump's Landing on the Tennessee River, in command of the 3rd Division, while Grant assembled his divisions at Pittsburg Landing, six miles away. Grant did not know that Albert Sidney Johnston, with 40,000 men, was near. At dawn lightning struck, and Grant's Army of the Tennessee was nearly...
...April 3-4-Annual Brifters Ski Club Invitation Memorial Downhill Team Race, Bartlett...