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...fell 23%. On the other hand, in 1937-38 wholesale prices fell only 9%, while industrial production and the stock market each fell about 20%. Unemployment rose from 6,400,000 to 9.800,000. By the standards of those earlier years, what happened in 1949 was merely a statistical flutter. Unemployment rose some 60% in a few months to 3,400,000 (not even high enough to meet Nathan's present-day definition of recession). Prices declined only slightly, industrial output dropped a mere 8%, and stock prices, after a quick 10% dip, were higher...
...That Bad?" Fully 1,000 doctors packed the hall when Fort Lauderdale's Dr. Richard A. Mills (after praising the Florida climate as a palliative for heart sufferers) lambasted doctors themselves for giving a lot of their patients a needless heart flutter. Sometimes, he said, the patient misunderstands when the doctor says "Your heart is slow," "Your blood pressure is low," or "Your heart is small." If the doctor does not take the trouble to make it clear that this is good news, it may convince the patient that he is seriously...
House of Wax also proves that the Warner technique is not yet perfected. Even with the polaroid glasses nestled snugly against your eyes, you will still occasionally see a double image. The resulting flutter is tiresome to the eyes, and only a ten-minute intermission between reels makes the rest of the film bearable...
Back to Laugharne. A poet needs more than the rare flutter of royalties to survive, Thomas feels. Most of all, he needs "a house to go back to . . . whenever he breaks down." The home Thomas can always go back to ("Nothing's any good in London") is in his native Wales, at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. "It's lovely, on the sea. You can spit right into the sea from our window, and we frequently do-all the time, in fact. I potter in the morning; I'm a very good potterer. I shop, I go to the village...
...Kremlin the elaborate medical ritual went on-every flutter of an eyelid neatly noted, every rasp of breath counted. Murder by medicine was a recognized technique in the world Stalin built and ruled; his wary survivors labored to document a thorough record of the Boss's last moments...