Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Ryle suggested that doctors should look for answers to some unexplored questions: What makes healthy people healthy? Why has the prevalence of intestinal ulcers, once rare, risen so enormously in the 20th Century? Why did the stillbirth rate in Wales, and tuberculosis in Britain, drop sharply during the war? Why do workingmen die of stomach and skin cancer twice as often as professional men? Why do doctors have twelve times as high a death rate from angina pectoris as farm workers...
...Brewing Business. The firm was started by James Smith, a Scottish carpenter, who supposedly got a recipe for cough drops from a peddler. He began brewing 5-lb. batches in his kitchen, sent sons William and Andrew to hawk the drops. After James died, the bewhiskered sons put the drops in boxes, stamped their faces on the cartons, and moved into a factory on "Cough Drop Street...
Only they know the secret drop formula. Twice a year William retires behind locked doors, mixes a large batch of concentrate, enough for six months' production. Robert says only that it contains some charcoal "to sweeten the stomach" and some licorice "to soothe the throat...
...Says a current Burma-Shave sign: "Although we've sold six million others, we still can't sell those cough-drop brothers...
...last week the price of wheat hit a 30-year high of $3.05 a bushel at Chicago. Then it began to drop. It plummeted 34½? from the high in two days in its biggest drop since the fall of France...