Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hence the Yale students as well as the visitors suffer from the revised plan, but McDermott reports, "We have little or no complaint from the undergraduates." And what protest there is will undoubtedly soon die a natural death, for only the Class of 1954 was around in the good old days, when Eli students were on the shady side of the street...
Only a generation ago, anemia was both a common and a fashionable complaint. It was good for endless speculative chatter, because doctors understood little about it, and nearly every patient had his (or more often her) favorite patent nostrum. Last week, Salt Lake City's Dr. Maxwell Myer Wintrobe told a Manhattan audience of doctors how drastically the anemia story has changed in a mere three decades...
...called "primary anemias" is being dropped from medical thinking, e.g., pernicious anemia is now known to be a metabolic upset in which the system fails to make proper use of vitamin B12. Once the cause of this or practically any other anemia is tracked down, the underlying complaint can be treated and the symptom usually disappears...
...Beat. The big complaint of capital reporters is that news by presentation is the cornerstone of the Administration's press relations. As a result, newsmen often get little chance to question top Government men if the presentation does not answer their questions or explain the policies satisfactorily. Complains New York Times Correspondent Bill Lawrence: "There's too much B.B.D. & O." Trying to reach sources directly to get the answers has posed another problem. Top Ikemen have generally become available to bureau chiefs, columnists and publishers, but newsmen covering routine beats are often left with little more than handouts...
...more than a decade, the nation's auto dealers have had one major complaint to file with Detroit: too few cars. Last week, they sang a different song. Across the U.S., dealers complained that they could not sell all the cars Detroit turned out. Texas dealers passed a resolution condemning "the production of automobiles in quantities far in excess of the number which can be orderly and efficiently sold." Kansas dealers, at their convention, called for a production cutback. Even one of the manufacturers joined the chorus. Said Studebaker's Chairman Paul G. Hoffman: "The automobile factories must...