Word: consciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polio. The two-year premium: $5 for an individual, $10 for a family, with benefits up to $5,000 per case. Last week, Continental found that it had an underwriter's bestseller. It had taken in almost $1,000,000 (90% from family policies) and a polio-conscious public was expected to run the total to $3,000,000 by year...
Five to One. Last week, in the hospital's monthly publication, Talk, talk-conscious Dr. Greene talked about an old subject. It has been known for centuries that male stutterers far outnumber females (at the hospital the ratio is 5 to 1). But why? Some doctors think that it might be the difference between male and female sex chromosomes (which also influence vocal characteristics),* but they have never had any final proof...
Live-wire Editor Louis Seltzer thought Cleveland needed a World War II Memorial, preferably a big one. In 1945, his promotion-conscious Press began beating Page-One drums to raise a $100,000 memorial fund, soon thumped it over the top. Seltzer then asked Sculptor Marshall
...last of two evening interviews with Gandhi ended only two days before Gandhi's assassination. Sheean has made a painful effort to report everything that was said. He is conscious of the incongruity of the meeting: the tall red-faced
Married. Fuller Warren, 43, Florida's camera-conscious, "cracker boy" Governor; and Barbara Manning, 23, blonde California secretary; he for the third time; in Los Angeles...