Word: ind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carte. In Columbus, Ind., Newlywed Robert Gates reported severe head pains to his doctor, who discovered rice...
...Almost unnoticed by the numbed consumer, meat prices crawled to an alltime high. In New York City last week the average for porterhouse steak was $1.03 a pound, for round steak $1.00. ¶ In Michigan City, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Agnew, 33, had her dentist arrested for assault and battery. The dentist, she said, had pulled a dozen of her teeth without permission, gave her no anesthetic, took a drink of whiskey after each extraction. ¶Cincinnati Common Pleas Judge Stanley Struble, 82, took a long look at a series of magazine pictures showing a young woman stripping down...
...early response was fairly encouraging. A thousand people gathered near the tracks to hear him at Crestline, Ohio; at Fort Wayne, Ind., 3,000 turned out. He was respectfully received-although at Gary, Ind., a woman in a floppy hat shouted: "Hello,. Harry. I'm from Independence. I knowed you when you worked for Pendergast." In Chicago, 100,000 lined the streets to watch him ride from the train to the Palmer House. But what the political doctors had ordered was a roaring ovation-and Harry Truman got only a spattering of hand-claps...
...book is composed chiefly of worrywarts' case histories. Samples: ¶ Mr. H. J. Englert of Tell City, Ind. got scarlet fever, then nephritis ("a kidney disease"), ran his blood pressure up to 214. Doctors advised him to make sure that his "insurance was all paid up" and then to get dressed for his funeral. After a week's "wallowing in self-pity," Mr. Englert "threw back [his] shoulders, put a smile on." Today, he is not only alive and happy, but his "blood pressure is down...
...American Association of University Professors was studying charges that faculty members had been fired for pro-Wallace activity at the University of Georgia, the University of Miami, and Evansville (Ind.) College. Most clear-cut case: the dismissal of young (29) George Parker, an assistant professor of religion and philosophy at Evansville and also county chairman of Citizens for Wallace. Just before he got the sack, Parker had presided at a meeting addressed by Henry Wallace. Explained Evansville's President Lincoln B. Hale: "Owing to Mr. Parker's political activities, both on and off the campus, his usefulness...