Word: auge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rhymes with paycheck), but they all knew his story. Joe had had a tough time. He had spent twelve years in prison for a murder which he had not committed. His mother had scrubbed floors to get the money to help clear him. When he was pardoned (TIME, Aug. 27, 1945), curly-haired, good-looking Joe Majczek became the hero of every Pole in town...
...Lasker Foundation awards to urbane, white-haired Dr. John Rock-the first Roman Catholic doctor to be so honored. Dr. Rock, 57, has studied the problems of fertility for 20 years. The first to demonstrate that human sperm can fertilize a human egg in the laboratory (TIME, Aug. 14, 1944), he is director of the Fertility and Endocrine Clinic at the Free Hospital for Women, Brookline, Mass...
Ulcers (gastric and duodenal) are pop ularly supposed to be an occupational dis ease of business executives, doctors, cab drivers, newsmen and other highstrung victims of a jittery civilization (TIME, Aug. 26, 1946). Doctors have noted that stomach ulcers are four times as common among men (who claim that they bear most of the strain of modern dog-eat-dog living) as among women...
...panic had various causes: the new British tax (TIME, Aug. 18), a big "Boo!" from Congressman J. Parnell Thomas-Red-hunting committee-and a 15% drop in box office. One reason so few pictures were being made was because Hollywood was not sure of the kind of pictures to make, except that they had to be cheaper. And with the box-office drop-which cut down the long wartime runs of pictures-there had to be more of them, probably...
Inflation. Richard Neison Wishbone Harris, 32, who expanded a $5,000 investment into the multimillion-dollar Toni (home permanent wave) Co. in seven years (TIME, Aug. 18), sold out to Gillette Safety Razor Co. Harris, who will continue as Toni's president, will get $20,000,000, with a first down payment of $11.5 million in cash...