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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a pregnant woman feels sorry for herself and wants a chocolate fudge sundae, she should have it, says Dr. Arthur G. King of Cincinnati. In the current American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. King challenges the prevailing fashion among obstetricians of warning patients to keep their weight gains below an arbitrary 25 pounds...
...will be able to offer a job to any of his ballplayers who want to work after they are through in baseball. There is small chance, however, that Stan The Man, with at least five good years of baseball left in him, will ever wind up working for his current boss...
...Department of Commerce, shuffling through its latest statistics, last week found that the "overall picture appears to be one of sustained underlying demand." According to the Department's Survey of Current Business, the slump came largely because businessmen satisfied the demand for goods out of inventories, instead of from new production. When inventories are depleted, production will have to pick up; and so long as demand stays as high as it was at midyear, said the Survey, the slump will be only a "temporary" affair...
...increased labor efficiency, was the reason for higher productivity, they said. Furthermore, the rate of steel production had dropped 15% in the last six months and profits were down. Some small companies, like Lukens Steel Co., insisted that they could not afford to pay increases at the current rate of earnings. Said Lukens' Robert Wolcott: "Wage increases can't be paid out of past profits . . . [In] the four-week . . . period ending July 9, 1949 . . . Lukens . . . showed a net loss...
...retailer estimated the trade would sell upwards of 40 million pieces of Western gear this year. About half of all boys' furnishings will have a Western touch. Though the boom has been building for several years, one big reason for the sudden upsurge is television. Unable to get current movies, TV stations have resurrected hundreds of old-fashioned Westerns...