Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When C. I. O.'s Philip Murray, Sidney Hillman and two score sub-lieutenants went to Cleveland last fortnight to minister to the feud-fuddled United Automobile Workers of America, they hoped to apply not a cure but a poultice. To that end they had the delegates elect conservative, cooperative Roland Jay Thomas to the presidency and abolish the jobs of four quarrelsome vice presidents (TIME, April 10). Last week, to the dismay of Physicians Murray & Hillman, the delegates in winding up their convention wound the poultice into a knot...
...American people's faith in education as a cure-all is misplaced. Reasons: education is 1) an institutional straitjacket, 2) too slow. "This great faith in gradualness . . . assumes what may be called the haystack theory of social problems, that is, that our culture confronts a fixed quantum of problems which are being slowly carted away by 'progress,' each load reducing the total awaiting removal. Actually, however, the culture appears to be piling up problems faster than the slow horse-and-haywagon process of liberal change through education and reform is able to dispose of them...
...from M. I. T., and married on a $2,000-a-year income from Stone & Webster. Slowly his salary rose to $40,000, but debts rose faster. First his wife had a $1,500 operation. Then his son got tuberculosis and Viggo Bird borrowed $9,000 to finance a cure in Switzerland. Just before 1929 his brother lost $30,000 belonging to their mother. Viggo Bird assumed the debt...
Animals inoculated first with human tuberculosis germs and then with the new drug developed only mild infections at the site of the injections. All those inoculated with germs but not the drug died of tuberculosis. The sulfanilamide compound, said Dr. Crossley, does not cure advanced tuberculosis, nor do the animal tests "permit any conclusion . . . as to the [drug's] efficacy in the treatment of this disease...
...demands are modest (25? an hour, 44 hours a week); 3) the penalties are so stiff that Business had to try to conform to a miserably written statute. Last week Mr. Andrews, vexed just as much as Business by the bungled law, asked Congress to cure the worst defects. His chief proposals...