Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merit of the Wickard plan was that it would, end the Alice-in-Wonderland economics of cotton (TIME, Nov. 20), yet give the South ample time to put its economy in order. The plan's weakness was that, once subsidy payments are started, they will be hard if not politically impossible to stop...
After taking its own informal poll, the Herald Tribune reported: "Not one of the men questioned said he intended remaining in the Navy. . . . The reasons given were low pay, promotion by the calendar instead of merit, competition with Naval Academy men, red tape, normal resentment arising from being forced to take orders from obviously incompetent superiors...
Lieut. Commander James Edward Van Zandt, 45, onetime commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, onetime isolationist and anglophobic U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, who volunteered for Navy action when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, got a Legion of Merit from General MacArthur for "splendid performance of duty" as commander of assault waves in "sustained operations against the enemy...
...management of the common cold," and because he was convinced that most remedies in-use were either "useless or harmful." On his blacklist: astringent, oily or silver-salt nose drops; fruit juices; laxatives; fresh air; alkaline drinks; fluids. The only remedies besides salt in which he sees any merit are sulfadiazine sprays, vaccines (sometimes), sun lamp treatments and sun baths...
...adjusted service rating card" will be issued to all enlisted personnel. On the cards men will score their 1) length of service since Sept. 16, 1940; 2) length of service overseas; 3) combat awards (Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Legion of Merit, etc.); 4) number of dependent children (up to a limit of three) under 18 years. The exact value of point credits based on the Army's poll will be announced later on. Highest ratings will be given to parenthood and service over seas...