Word: halfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class men machine-gunned on the streets of Munich on Nov. 9, 1923, in Adolf Hitler's abortive bid for power-had been scheduled at the traditional hour of 8:30. At 6, the Munich radio announced, without giving a reason, that the meeting had been set ahead half an hour...
...possible to increase somewhat the tiny food rations on which the Fatherland subsists (TIME, Oct. 9). Germans were promised that during December, "in honor of the holiday season," they will each be able to buy an extra pound of meat, three-quarters of a pound of rice, one-half pound of butter, six eggs and three ounces of chocolate...
Metrazol. Metrazol is a powerful stimulant of the centres which regulate blood pressure, heart action and respiration. Technique of metrazol injections is simple. A patient receives no food for four or five hours. Then about five cubic centimeters of the drug are injected into his veins. In about half-a-minute he coughs, casts terrified glances around the room, twitches violently, utters a hoarse wail, freezes into rigidity with his mouth wide open, arms and legs stiff as boards. Then he goes into convulsions. In one or two minutes the convulsion is over, and he gradually passes into a coma...
...same kind of audience which listens to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra on Sunday afternoons, CBS last month tried out a program called The Pursuit of Happiness. For this show, a half-hour of not-too-spangly Americana designed to balance the ugly weight of war news, it collected a star-spangled cast...
...studio an audience of 600 stamped, shouted, bravoed for two minutes while the show was still on the air, for 15 minutes after. In the next half-hour 150 telephone calls managed to get through CBS's jammed Manhattan switchboard. The Hollywood switchboard was jammed for two hours. In the next few days bales of letters demanded words, music, recordings, another time at bat for Ballad for Americans...