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Word: curely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curb or Cure. The Administration's specialists, testifying before congressional committees last week, argued that the way to stop inflation was first to control exports and allocate scarce materials to the most essential users. As insurance against a future turn for the worse, they also recommended price, wage and rationing controls and restored curbs on installment buying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Chills & Fever | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...Federal Reserve Board's Chairman Marriner S. Eccles, a man with decided opinions of his own. To Eccles, the Administration's program was no more than dabbing at the patient's beak with a soggy handkerchief. It might curb the effects of inflation; it would not cure the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Chills & Fever | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...Ultimate Solution." Eccles had his own remedies ready. One way to cure the disease, he said, was to reduce the money supply and thereby cut demand. He proposed: voluntary wage ceilings, lower profits (and lower prices), an end to Government support of farm prices (unless price ceilings were restored). To sop up excess credit, he wanted the Government to keep high tax rates and whittle the federal debt. To check the flow of new credit he wanted to raise the banks' reserve requirements and force interest rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Chills & Fever | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...most good at the University of Chicago. The university was already spending upwards of $500,000 a year on cancer research. The scientists of several departments, including nuclear physicists who helped develop the atom bomb, had worked out a cooperative program to find cancer's cause & cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: The Horsepower | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Relapsing malaria is difficult to cure because the tiny parasites that cause the disease lurk in the viscera, where they are hard to reach with drugs. SN 13,274 is the best of a long series of drugs that researchers have developed as improvements on quinine and atabrine. Dr. Elderfield hopes that supplies of the drug will soon be available for nearly half a million ex-G.I.s who have had relapses of malaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: SN 13,274 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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