Word: journals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farewell address, pedestrian John Bracken argued that to get anywhere, the Tory party must become "a crusading party dedicated to the welfare of the ordinary man and woman." That was not the mood of the convention. Said Acting Chairman M. Grattan O'Leary (of the Ottawa Journal), as he shut off the polite applause for Bracken: "Ladies & gentlemen, we come back now to the hard realities of the business before...
...certain yet just why penicillin dust works on colds. But last week's Journal of the American Medical Association published a cautious and belated plug lor a treatment that has already become popular. A group of doctors who tried inhaled penicillin dust on 169 cold patients reported that it helped 80%. Often the patients' noses came unplugged and they could breathe more easily immediately after the treatment...
...ended the Christian Science Monitor's taboo on mentioning death. But the Monitor still prefers the gentler passed away. In Atlanta, residents are Atlantans to the Constitution, but Atlantians to the rival Journal. In the Sacramento Bee the California weather can get warm but never (even...
...cost of food-the biggest component of the cost of living-was finally heading down. In its mid-September index of crop and livestock prices, the Department of Agriculture reported a three-point drop to 290 (1909-14 average: 100), the second drop in two months. The Journal of Commerce's wholesale food index also dropped half a point...
...great fortunes of post-Revolutionary days, went cruising to the Mediterranean in a fabulous pleasure boat named Cleopatra's Barge, and fervently supported Thomas Jefferson. One Crowninshield hanged himself on the eve of his trial in a sensational murder case. Another left an account of his travels (Journal of Captain John Crowninshield at Calcutta, 1797-1798, When Master of the Ship Belisarius*) that is far better than most fiction...