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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newly mined U.S silver does not enter the free market. The U.S. Mint buys it at a subsidy price of 90.5? an ounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pieces of Silver | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...King suggests that instead of frightening the patient and browbeating her into passing up favorite foods, the doctor should let her eat what she wants, soothe her fears and give her "a mature, optimistic orientation." His clincher: uninhibited, free-fed women have an easier time in labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fat & Happy | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...about most things, 17-year-old Stan had seen enough poverty to be hardheaded about money, and he signed the contract with misgivings: the Cardinals had a reputation for paying their help poorly. In 1938, when the late Judge Landis decreed that 91 Cardinal farmhands (including Musial) were free agents, Stan sat back again and awaited a call from Pittsburgh. Instead he had a personal visit from Eddie Dyer. After a long apprenticeship as a minor-league manager, persuasive Eddie Dyer had become a supervisor of Cardinal farm clubs. After listening to Dyer for an hour, Stan said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Man | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Stan already has his own business. As new co-owner of Stan Musial's & Biggie's Steak House in St. Louis, he strolls among the restaurant's potted palms every evening that he is free, smiling shyly at his guests. Even if the restaurant business should fail, he could always go back and become lord mayor of Donora, where special scoreboards keep the home-town faithful posted on every hit Stan Musial makes every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Man | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

When the bees are released, they will (usually) take the sugar syrup home to the hive in the tree. If luck is with the hunter, they will bring comrades back to help carry the rest of the free lunch. When dozens or hundreds of bees are making the trip, the hunter can set his beeline in the right direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Like Honey? | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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