Word: doctorates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bruising. His story was a common one to Britons who, for the last eight months, have trooped into doctors' and dentists' offices to get free medical care under the Labor government's National Health Service. Last week the government delivered the bill for all the spectacles, dentures and trusses. Like many a doctor's bill, it was a shocker...
...public cannot buy Dramamine yet, but it will probably go on sale next month, by doctor's prescription...
Last week the case of the strange salt suddenly became more serious. A doctor in Ann Arbor, Mich, reported to Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, that a patient was critically ill, apparently from lithium chloride. Two days later three doctors from Cleveland's Crile Clinic sent in another report: two patients (one 70, the other 60) had died and five others were ill, apparently from the salt. Dr. Fishbein asked newspapers and radio stations to issue warnings. Planning to reclassify lithium chloride as a drug instead of as a special dietary food...
Jesse Jones tried to dodge testifying; he sent a doctor's note that he was too ill. When Moffett brought out that Jones had sat up most of one night drinking "large quantities of whisky" and playing poker for $4,000 pots, Jones decided to appear. He testified that he had asked F.D.R. to write the memo, so that he could tell Moffett that RFC could not finance Ibn Saud. Nevertheless, Jones admitted that RFC had later advanced $425 million to Great Britain, which in turn gave Ibn Saud $51 million. This deal, Moffett claimed, saved Aramco at least...
Cover Up (United Artists) is a doubtful little melodrama with a doubtful moral thesis: murder is excusable when the victim is an unpopular curmudgeon. The film's makers avoid an out & out tussle with the Johnston Office by killing off the murderer, a kindly old doctor, before Insurance Investigator Dennis O'Keefe can catch up with him. But, preoccupied with Dennis' courtship of a suspect's daughter (Barbara Britton), they blithely overlook the fact that a local banker was an accessory to murder and that Sheriff William Bendix shut his eyes to the crime. The rather...