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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Statisticians poring over the reports found some cold comfort. This year's total, whatever it might be, could not be compared directly with the 1916 total of 30,000 cases, because the U.S. population has increased by about half in the meantime. Also, because so many milder cases are now properly diagnosed and reported, the proportion of crippling and fatal cases is far less. (The death rate among youngsters under 15 is now one-fifteenth the rate of the 1916 mortality...
Allergy tests made with husband, Holdridge's hair oil, hair, dandruff and clothing proved nothing. But Psychiatrist Gordon Dayton found the explanation. During interviews, Joyce Holdridge became jittery and itchy, just from talking about her husband...
...some British salesmen in the U.S. found that business boomed as soon as prices were cut. Britain's Drake America Corp. slashed men's Argyle socks 22%, cashmere sweaters 20%, and most other goods accordingly. In two days, it booked $1,250,000 worth of orders. Austin Motors Co. Ltd., which had slashed its prices from 11 to 15%, sold out its entire U.S. stock of 1,000 cars in the first two days after devaluation, promptly ordered 500 more. But such price cuts seemed likely to last only in those British goods, such as autos, which...
...translation, Cervantes' style proves in English to be what it is in Spanish: one of the easiest, surest and most varied ever set to paper. Cervantes did not use his poetic gifts as directly as Shakespeare did, yet in a lifelong struggle to shake his talents loose, he found a loving patience and a kind irony that made him at last the deepest, widest humorist who ever wrote...
...turned out, Cervantes found himself-and the form that became the modern novel-quite by accident. He started out to write a piffling burlesque of the popular chivalric romances of his day; Don Quixote became a masterpiece almost by mistake...