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...private capital, but private capital is showing itself understandably reluctant about investing in what appears to be a highly unpredictable economy. Besides, private investors are a little uncertain as to the extent and fervor of Indians socialist ambitions. Russia recently agreed to lend India $126 million, reportedly might cough up another $25 million, which would not be much help...
...cigarette industry has long fought the battle of the public's health from "Not a cough in a carload," to "Significantly less tars and nicotine than any other filter brand." Last week nervous food men wondered if their time had come. A battle of the ads had started over unsaturated v. saturated fats* and their connection, if any, with the amount of cholesterol in the human bloodstream and the prevalence of heart attacks. Though nutritionists and the American Heart Association itself (see MEDICINE) consider a cause-and-effect relationship between fats and heart disease far from proved, scientific doubts...
Nothing affects business like the weather, and the weather affects every business differently. Snow sells cough drops but slows construction; a wet spring makes farmers buy fungicide by the carload but gives air-conditioner manufacturers the shudders; at the first frost orchids and oranges perish but antifreeze and ski-wax sales bloom again. Yet only a few businessmen can depend on the U.S. Weather Bureau's generalized daily reports for the information they need. To get the precise, specially tailored reports they want, more and more companies are turning to private weathermen, who tell them what the weather will...
...cleaning the room. His toilet manners became very good; he always went to the proper corner of the room. He did not try to talk in the human sense, but Rosemarie learned the noises that he made to express emotion. A guttural gurgle meant contentment, and a soft cough meant that he was going to get vicious. When he tried to bite, Rosemarie once knocked him clear across the room, but Knorke did not hold this against...
...neglected his practice to spend his time trying to build a perpetual-motion machine. Even by the standards of the Reconstruction South, the Porters were desperately poor, and at 19 Will went to Texas as the guest of another doctor who was worried by the boy's "hacking cough." At just about every crisis in his life, Will was able to find kindly acquaintances who would similarly ease his path by lending him money, giving him free room and board, finding him jobs...