Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soares has his answers: Volta Redonda's location, halfway between the port of Rio and industrial Sao Paulo, is ideal for distribution. The Paraiba River furnishes an ideal water supply. Limestone (a necessity in steelmaking) is mined near by. In time, Soares expects subsidiary industries to grow up around Volta Redonda, turn it into a Brazilian Pittsburgh...
...repertory company as the staging of classic vehicles, well-known, well-read, but seldom seen--such as this company has done in "Henry VIII" and will do with "John Gabriel Borkman." The actual merit of the production is secondary to the fact that interested spectators are seeing, in ideal repertory offerings, things that were destined for the stage and have, by changes in modern tastes and temperaments, been relegated to the closet...
From a cancer researcher's standpoint, the thyroid gland is an ideal organ to work on: it is easily reached with a test material-iodine-since it takes up nearly all the iodine fed to the body. It is also sensitive to atomic radiation. Researchers have found that radioactive iodine inhibits overactive thyroids; carefully measured amounts of it usually cure hyperthyroidism...
...Betty's hospital, typically understaffed (by 50%), there is one nurse for every ten beds (ideal: five beds). Said Betty and her colleagues: much of their time is taken by work that could be done just as well by a practical nurse or by a cleaning woman. (Said the hospital: cleaning women are as hard to find as nurses...
...magazine) when he was twelve, went on to earn as much as $75,000 a year from his illustrations and posters. His famed "I Want You" poster of Uncle Sam pointing a fiercely demanding finger took millions of civilian eyes in World War I. The sulky-looking, full-bosomed Ideal Woman that he created and developed was seen in all the slick magazines in the flat-chested twenties. Now 69, he is still painting pictures that get about-such as his archly compassionate conception of Rosalind Russell in RKO Radio's Sister Kenny...