Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Sigmund Freud, 83, exiled Austrian, father of psychoanalysis; of cancer and heart disease; in his son's home in Hampstead, England. Throughout his last 16 years he suffered pain from cancer of the jaw, saw his books burned by Nazis, his ideas distorted by exaggeration, overpopularity, licentious application. Never lamenting his persecution and illness, he waited for death patiently, his only complaint: "It is tragic when a man outlives his body...
...soon the Pasteur Institute in Paris began work on the use of animal poisons for relief of uncontrollable pain. That was ten years ago. Most practical poison to use, the French scientists discovered, is cobra venom, which is easy to extract, measure and inject. Fortnight ago, in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Robert Northwall Rutherford of Brookline, Mass. issued a set of standard directions on the everyday use of cobra venom...
...coal industry was under pressure to supply domestic customers anxious to pile up stocks at pre-war prices; needy belligerents and neutrals who formerly bought from England or Germany. Last week the Norfolk & Western Railway which taps the mines of West Virginia and Kentucky carried 20,845 cars of coal, just 48 cars less than its all time record in the boom week of March 27, 1937. Any further increases in production are limited by: 1) the fact that many mines have not now the man power or machine power to shift to a six-day week; 2) such coal...
...them. Meanwhile, war orders piled up at the same time as ordinary post-Labor Day orders from the auto companies, who want prompt delivery and plenty of it. This brass bottleneck caused copper sales to lag, particularly because brass manufacturers bought far ahead last May (TIME, May 15); and England, willing enough to buy processed brass, is not wasting her precious foreign exchange buying U. S. raw copper for her own mills, when she can obtain it from South Africa...
Handel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D Major (London Philharmonic, Felix Weingartner conducting; Columbia: 4 sides). Last fortnight war forced the 126-year-old London Philharmonic, England's No. 2 orchestra* and one of the world's finest nine or ten, to disband. This well-tooled "first" of Handel's serene, 18th- Century score becomes its first posthumous release...