Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Patricia Cunningham, wife of a New Jersey engineer, was joyously pregnant for the first time in eight years of marriage. Late last year, early in her sixth month, she began to have labor contractions. Since a baby delivered that prematurely would have no chance of survival, Obstetrician Arthur Perell took immediate steps to stop the contractions. But not by surgery to close the womb, a technique sometimes used. Instead, Dr. Perell got Mrs. Cunningham a bit tipsy, and kept her that way until the contractions stopped...
...alcohol to save premature babies was the discovery of Anna-Riitta Fuchs, a physiologist at Rockefeller University, who found that alcohol given intravenously to animals shuts off the production of oxytocin, the hormone that activates labor contractions. Mrs. Fuchs is the wife of Dr. Fritz Fuchs, obstetrician in chief at New York Hospital; during her fourth pregnancy, she began to have premature contractions, and thus became the first human to receive the treatment suggested by her animal research...
...profits during the fourth quarter by 2% to pare its decline for the year to 9%. The company reported* total earnings of $1.63 billion on sales of $20 billion. Though the industry hopes for record car sales in 1968, the momentum of G.M., for one, is threatened by continued labor woes. With local walkouts curtailing production at company plants, some 84,000 G.M. workers were off the job at the end of last week...
...comparison. At TWA, net income climbed from $33,371,000 to $40,658,000 on sales of $1.02 billion. Eastern's profits went from $14,713,000 to $24,114,000. Despite the apparent improvement, though, most airlines are suffering because of huge outlays for new planes, rising labor costs and the low profitability of their myriad fare-discount plans...
...other restrictions to lend no more than 55% of their deposits. Fifty years ago, the British Treasury put an end to an earlier wave of bank mergers by threatening legislation to control them. Backed by the Bank of England, that anti-merger doctrine persisted until last spring. Then the Labor government's Prices and Incomes Board called for a new policy, complaining that British banks had grown stodgy and uncompetitive, and had far too many branches...