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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Lloyd Wilson came back at the Bureau. Not to save $6.18 (filing an appeal cost him $10) but to establish a point that "could mean a big saving for a lot of people," he argued that the law recognizes unborn children as living human beings in many other instances. It permits a child to inherit from a father who dies before the child is born. It calls abortion murder. Mrs. Wilson also added an argument: "The doctor's bill started long be fore the child was born. . . . The cost of supporting a child doesn't wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Multiplication and Deduction | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...worked in steel, automobiles, rubber, etc., management paid all the costs. "Employe representatives" did good work for group health programs, plant safety, sports, etc. but rarely went to bat on basic questions of wages or hours. This saved employers trouble but it was not a cheap form of insurance. Even in companies (Bethlehem included) where E. R. P. worked best, it cost employers time and money to keep it going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: 20 Years After | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...surprising result was obtained last month by a Fortune poll of public opinion. The question: "Should the Democratic powers, including the United States, now stand firm together at any cost to prevent Hitler or Mussolini from taking any more territory at the expense of other nations?" The answers: 56.3 per cent, Yes; 31 per cent, No; undecided, 12.7 per cent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA AND THE WORLD--1939 VERSION | 1/5/1939 | See Source »

...problems is evident from the titles of his 300 pamphlets. Some of them: Love and How to Express It, Acidosis (and how to overcome it), Promiscuous Kissing, The Care of the Skin, Disciplining Your Child, Insomnia, War of the Sexes, Feminine Shapeliness, Have You Been Jilted? Although the pamphlets cost 3? each, a listener whose troubles run a wide enough gamut to require 50 pamphlets can get them at a bargain price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: V. O. E. | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...clinch the deal, which will cost his company almost $12,000,000 in stock, President Dow dangled an attractive proposition before Great Western's stockholders. For each preferred share they hold, they will get three-sixteenths of a share of Dow common; for each common share (whose price zoomed from $60 to $132 on news of the merger), one share of Dow common (about $134). The merger will make Great Western a Dow division with Jacob Hagens its manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Corporate Catalysis | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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