Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must by law,* the House first picked up the challenge flung by Harry Truman. Its first item of business was the President's veto of the tax-cut bill (TIME, June 23), which House Republicans were determined to override. They got a shock. Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn had done a fast job of rounding up diffident Democrats. He had also corralled two rebel Republicans-Wisconsin's stolid ex-Progressive, Merlin Hull, and Minnesota's sharp-faced Carl Anderson. When the vote was counted, and breathlessly recounted, Hull and Anderson represented the margin of Administration victory. If they...
Vagotomy, the most popular of all, is the vagus nerve operation for ulcers, developed by Chicago's Dr. Lester R. Dragstedt (TIME, Aug. 26). Some 2,000 vagotomies have already been performed in the U.S.; Dr. Dragstedt is credited with 300. Properly done, the operation seems to be generally successful in stopping certain ulcers of the small intestine (Dr. Dragstedt does not recommend it for stomach ulcers...
...College of Physicians and Surgeons, does very few lobotomies, warns patients sternly: "Although surgery is sometimes necessary, it is a barbaric form of therapy." Says Dr. Winfred Overholser, chief of St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D. C.: "The operation is very much overdone. It is even done on young people who have had no opportunity to try other forms of therapy. I look upon it as a mutilating operation. It puts out of commission the part of the brain that separates man from the higher anthropoids...
...other self-contained tramp caravans like his were busy getting in the Oklahoma harvest, part of the greatest wheat crop in U.S. history. The Department of Agriculture raised its estimates of its size once more, this time to 1,409,000,000 bushels. The job would not have been done without the cutters who have taken the place of the old migrant harvest hands. The business was born during the war, when wheat farmers expanded their acreage far beyond what they could harvest with their own machinery (TIME, July...
Banker's Pay. Custom-cutting will remain profitable as long as wheat prices remain high and farmers grow more than they can cut with their own machinery. Dupree, a trucker in Phillipsburg, Kans. in the winter, has done well enough to acquire two combines, two trucks, a pickup and trailer (worth more than...