Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gulping deep the Tuesday morning air to cure their Memorial Day hangovers, Hollywood actors and actresses last week reported for work under a new wage scale won for them by the Screen Actors Guild. From now on, minimum day's pay for extras will be $5.50 instead of $3.20. Cinema cowboys will henceforth get $11 instead of $5 a day. With wages for other low-bracket actors up proportionately, the Guild's new scale affects all companies, makes most difference to bargain-hunting independents, who make 240 of Hollywood's 700 feature pictures a year. Costs will...
...Dale and H. Barger, benzedrine sulfate became known to the medical world as a strong stimulant to the central nervous system. This year and last it has been used by a few students in the University prior to the examination period as a cure for fatigue and as a means to increased mental efficiency. To discourage the practice Arlie V. Bock, M.D., Ph.D., Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, now in charge of the Hygiene Department has issued the following statement...
Born in Richford in upState New York in 1839, John Rockefeller moved to Cleveland with his parents in 1853. His father, a restless, rollicking, lovable quack with dubious sources of income, including horse trading and hawking a cancer cure, was often absent from home for weeks at a time, used to cheat his sons to teach them sharpness. Where or when the father died is a secret which the Rockefellers have never divulged. The pious mother, Eliza Davison Rockefeller, brought up the moral balance...
...fishing as a boy off the Virginia Capes, when he threw a weakfish out for a big Hammerhead shark and was towed around for miles in his dory. He learned to chum for the brutes with fresh-killed fish, preferably good oily and bloody ones. He learned how to cure a hooked shark of sulking on the bottom: send a lively crab down the line to pinch his nose...
Artificial fever of 106.7° is a newly discovered, specific cure for gonorrhea. But only the sturdiest of individuals can endure this treatment (TIME, April 12). Also, it is relatively expensive, requiring a hot box and constant attendance of a specially trained nurse...