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After declaring that the cure of his country's economic ills lies in handing to the Austrian government control over natural resources, Gruber gave assurance that a sound economy and a democratic government would be established...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Minister of Austria Asks for End of Occupation | 11/13/1946 | See Source »

...full swing. The Government was distributing good cheap books, and it looked as though the new President of Venezuela's first representative government in generations would be Rómulo Gallegos Freire, a revered old novelist. A nation, most of whose citizens believe that the way to cure a cold is to grow a beard, found itself saying : "We've always had a grand future. Now we have a chance to make the future the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Springtime | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

When & if a cancer cure ever develops, present indications are that it will be found among the more virulent poisons. Reason: only the deadliest artillery (e.g., poisonous radioactive materials, X rays) can kill a cancer cell. Out last week was the news that during World War II, U.S. cancer specialists had launched an uncommonly interesting study of the cancer-killing possibilities of mustard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mustard against Cancer | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...incurable Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes. Although Hodgkin's is almost invariably fatal, one Chicago patient, a young commercial artist, has been kept in good working health for 33 months by periodic mustard treatments. Nitrogen mustard, the doctors warned, is not a cancer cure. But it i) relieves some patients' suffering for months at a time, 2) has encouraged researchers to think that they may be on the right track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mustard against Cancer | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...cure the "controlled" leather shortage, OWMR Boss John R. Steelman announced that U.S. tanners would be permittee to buy hides in the world market at world prices (almost 90% above OPA ceilings) but they must still sell all products, except leather from imported raw calfskins, at ceiling prices. No tanners could afford to do this. Anyway, the U.S. had waited so long to make up its mind that other nations had bought up nearly all the hides there were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wanted: Nails of All Kinds | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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