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Until the happy day when vitamin-coated gum-or some other near-magic-can stop tooth decay for. good, Pittsburgh's Dr. I. Franklin Miller suggests that dentists apply a smooth brand of psychology along with the drill. Dr. Miller recommends: waiting rooms full of knick-knacks to divert waiters; all the instruments of torture hidden; soft music, coffee and cigarets during "ten-minute breaks" in the grinding and probing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamin K Gum | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Along Russia's borders from Poland to Bulgaria (see FOREIGN NEWS), the U.S. position evoked response. Even Czechoslovakia's Russophile Fierlinger discussed earnestly with Ernest Bevin concrete plans to divert some of his country's almost exclusively Russian trade down the Elbe toward Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: New Europe | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...left. The "broadened" Warsaw Government was still dominated by Russia through Polish Communists and fellow travelers. Last week the election promise was deferred. Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski announced that he, personally, would like to see an election soon, but "until harvesting, repatriation and resettlement are finished, we must not divert attention from these basic tasks." Since repatriation and resettlement involve several million people, the Polish election was in effect indefinitely postponed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Election Postponed | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...postpone his plan to increase the meat supply by raising beef and pork subsidies, which would encourage the farmers to raise more cattle and hogs. He may also be forced to 1) ban the use of grains after Aug. 1 for the production of alcohol for beverages, 2) divert more wheat for animal feed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Limited Supply | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...decided that there was no longer any need for a Supreme Commander in the Pacific. Army and Navy forces can now agree on objectives. The Jap fleet, hacked to pieces in three historic days off the Philippines last October, mortally hurt last week, will never again be able to divert the Navy from close support of amphibious landings. The Navy has virtually completed its main and traditional task-to seek out the enemy's fleet and destroy it. For husky, white-haired Chester Nimitz the rest of the job is mostly ferrying the Army and Marines to the beaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMAND: Solution | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

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