Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some patients were running doctors ragged with petty requests. ("I always use Carter's Little Liver Pills. Please can I have a chit so that I can get them free?") A few diehard doctors, still hoping that the act would be a bust, were blandly prescribing champagne, oysters, whiskey and rum for their patients-at government expense. Some patients were unreasonable. One physician, forced to cancel his evening office hours because of a difficult, ten-hour delivery, was greeted at his surgery next morning by four threatening hoodlums; he was now a servant of the people, they told...
...University School of Medicine, Dr. Ivy reported his findings to date. He has used the hormone (his own chemists scrape it from the small intestines of freshly killed hogs) on 46 ulcer patients. Before treatment, they averaged a little over three months between ulcers. After treatment, their average symptom-free period rose to a little over ten months; two patients have gone four years, nine months without ulcers; 40% for 2½ years; 17% got no better. His work, Dr. Ivy says, is still "research in progress," not yet a proved cure. He still does not know just what there...
Before 34-year-old Frankfurt reopened in 1946, the faculty was purged of active Nazis by the American Military Government. Hallstein, a prewar law professor (at the University of Rostock) who still teaches the subject, was elected rector by his colleagues. Once a professor is approved, he is free to say what he wants (in the Russian zone, professors must submit lecture topics for Soviet O.K.). Books are so scarce that Mimeographed lecture notes sell for sky-high prices on the black market...
...belly of the plane. The pilot in distress would crawl into it and pull a handle. A parachute would then open and drag the cylinder out of the rear of the plane. A more elaborate device (kinder to the pilot) is a detachable cockpit that can be blown free of the plane by a set of explosive bolts...
...Illinois ex-Senator William E. Mason, he went to Washington in 1934 as a lawyer with NRA. When that job folded, he was so broke that for a time he lived on Fig Newtons. Then his good friend Billy Richardson, part owner of the Washington Senators, gave him a free box alongside the dugout at the ball park...