Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symptoms. Dr. Halliday, onetime general practitioner and now a member of Scotland's Department of Health, finds many signs that society is coming apart at the mental seams. Except for a wartime spurt, the birthrate is declining, owing not to poor health but to the neurotic anxieties of parents. While the birthrate goes down, psychosomatic complaints such as peptic (stomach) ulcers...
...thus a cause as well as a symptom, Dr. Halliday believes. Western society also suffered from changes in child-rearing, he thinks. Dr. Halliday looks skeptically at the flush toilet, and deplores its leading to too-early toilet training, hence frustration. The decline in breast-feeding and the general use of baby carriages, he thinks, robbed children of needed, reassuring contact with their mothers. Many changes were good physiologically, but bad psychologically...
There were other stirrings in Bizonia. In Ruesselsheim, General Motors' Opel factory shipped 24 Opel Olympia two-door sedans to Belgium, Opel's first automobile exports since war's end. Young Henry Ford II visited his Cologne plant and promised to expand it into the biggest automobile factory in Europe...
...present is his own company; it needs six months to get out color prints and moviemakers hate to wait that long. Otherwise, most moviemakers would probably be glad to make all their A pictures in Technicolor. The Government takes a different view. As owner of the onetime German company, General Aniline & Film Corp., the Government has a three-color process of its own. It claimed that Technicolor deals with moviemakers - and others - were making it hard to market General Aniline's product...
Expensive Experiment. General Electric Co. told why it could afford to cut prices (TIME, Jan. 12). On record peacetime sales of $1.3 billion in 1947, it had netted $95,298,940, highest in its 56-year history. But the margin of profit on sales was down (7.2% against 11.6% prewar). The experiment in price cutting, said G.E.'s Charles E. Wilson, will cut gross sales about...