Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea that a nip at the bottle may help to nip a cold, long popular with laymen, won medical support last week in the Archives of Otolaryngology. In the first stage of a cold, argued Chicago's Dr. Noah D. Fabricant, the nose is cold; its blood vessels contract, nasal passages become dry, and the stage is set for infection. At this time, said Dr. Fabricant, a jigger of whisky can raise the nose temperature and reverse the process...
Back in the U.S., he had a fling at Hollywood again (26 frustrating weeks under a writer's contract), but began to hit his stride on Hallmark with his adaptations of Cradle Song and The Lark. But Little Moon, exuberantly greeted by most U.S. TV critics last week, seemed to mark a big upturn in Costigan's career. In it he grappled compassionately with "those forces in life that make it difficult or impossible," qualified as the kind of writer once described by Pascal in a line that Costigan likes to quote: ''I most admire those...
AMERICAN MOTORS, already well along comeback trail, will pick up more speed with Government contract for its light (1,500 Ibs.), jeeplike Mighty Mite, which can hit 60 m.p.h. with aluminum, V4, air-cooled engine. First order: $5.6 million for tooling and 250 vehicles for Marine Corps, but Detroit says much bigger orders are coming...
...headquarters, blinked at photographers' flash bulbs and wheeled into pastel-colored conference room No. 5-202. There, trading handshakes and he-man jokes with 13 deputies of his own U.A.W. and 15 G.M. bargainers, he sat down to hammer out the auto industry's first new labor contract since 1955. Cracked Reuther to G.M. Vice President Louis G. Seaton, as he slipped behind a chipped wooden table: "Well, it's the same old table." Grinned Seaton: "We can't afford...
...Dead Serious." G.M. countered by calling for a continuation of the present contract, which would provide a flat 6% yearly wage boost, no additional benefits and no profit-sharing. Automakers speculated that Reuther himself has little hope of winning a profit-sharing agreement, is only using it as leverage in the main fight for a hefty wage raise, despite all his "dead serious" talk of finding "a way by which wage earners can achieve their equity, their measure of social and economic justice." Reuther may even have trouble gaining much of a pay boost. With skidding sales, the industry...