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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CALIFORNIA (See Cover...
Paprika & Disguises. Szent-Gyorgyi, now 55, grey-haired and dynamic, won his Nobel Prize in 1937 for isolating vitamin C (ascorbic acid) from the plants of one of Hungary's favorite vegetables, paprika. As Nazi influence grew in Hungary, he found that his research was a handy cover for underground anti-Nazi work. One of his cloak & dagger jobs was carrying a secret letter to the British legation in Istanbul on the pretense of having to give a scientific lecture in Turkey. When the Gestapo got too close on his trail, he went completely underground disguised...
Enclosed is a postal money order in the amount of $12.50 to cover the cost of one year's subscription to TIME...
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...Bugas: "It would be utter folly to take any action which would increase the price of our products." The A.F.L. agreed. In its official Monthly Survey it warned that wage demands could force employers into bankruptcy. Said A.F.L.: "Competition is back; prices can no longer be raised indiscriminately to cover higher costs. Business executives show new interest in cutting expenses. Production per man-hour is now rising sharply. These are all healthy developments which can bring business to its normal postwar balance...