Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cartoonist Abner Dean's publishers claim that psychiatrists try out his drawings on their patients. The average beholder who looks at And on the Eighth Day hard and long enough is apt to wonder whether it is he or the artist who is in need of a session on the confessional couch. Dean, a successful commercial artist and nephew of revolutionary Sculptor Jacob Epstein, has some of the humor of a Thurber or a Steig: but he is not trying to be funny. This is his third book of drawings (the others: It's a Long...
Wives & War Bonds. The union's case, argued chiefly by Murray and Labor Economist Robert Nathan, was based mainly on the claim that the workers needed more money. Said Murray: "To the wife of any steelworker the high cost of living is a household reality . . . Savings have been depleted. War bonds have been cashed...
Curb Service. In Pompano, Fla., Samuel Bachinger, visiting an insurance broker to pay his automobile insurance premium, glanced out the window, saw a sign blow off the company's building and smack his Oldsmobile, promptly filed a claim...
Russia's standard claim to vast economic progress got one more ringing refutation last week. After long study, Australian economist Colin Clark documented his conclusion that the rate of Soviet production per man-hour of work was less than one-eighth that of the U.S. "Economic progress in Russia," said Clark, "has been uncertain and slow, and the most recent figures indicate that productivity is now only at about [its] 1900 level...
...women tortured by tight corsets and breath-killing clothes, she cooed: "That feeling of bearing down...is always permanently cured by its use." The list of complaints which the compound was supposed to cure ran the gamut from dysmenorrhea to nymphomania. Derisively, some citizens suggested that only one claim remained to be made-"A Baby in Every Bottle." As the Pinkham company grew, however, it dropped some of the more extravagant claims and emphasized the value of the compound as a pain killer. Here, as millions of women users apparently still believe, Lydia seems to have had something...