Word: non
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better built, more attractive homes, more stylish and durable clothes could also be readily available. With precise enthusiasm, Prophet Moulton gives such detailed examples of potential progress as non-warp, non-scratch, non-splinter pleasure boats, and plastic violins which might all but rival the Stradivarius in tone...
...side of more calm and less panic. This week it became known that great numbers of cases diagnosed and reported as polio may not be polio at all. Three researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine reported that they had isolated a virus which causes a disease like non-paralytic polio. They found it last year in so-called polio victims in several cities. Still unnamed, the disease apparently does no lasting harm...
...takes 1,360 of them to make a pound, from which about 1½ grams (a third of a teaspoonful) of ACTH can be extracted in a solution and separated as a fluffy, white powder. The process is remarkably simple. But even with the cooperation of non-Armour stockyards, the Armour Laboratories can get so far only about 125,000 hog pituitaries a week-enough to make five ounces of ACTH. All the hogs slaughtered in the U.S. would not yield much more than a pound a week...
...Hull ventured into the food business. But not long after they bought into the Toddle Houses food shops, a Southern restaurant chain, they got in a fight with other directors who opposed their system of employee profit sharing. So Hull and Dobbs set up Toddle-like restaurants in non-Toddle cities...
...depend on air traffic alone to support his restaurants. So he tricked them out in local color (his Atlanta restaurant is decorated with Uncle Remus murals and has a Negro "Uncle Remus" doorman perched on a cotton bale outside) and collected recipes from famed U.S. restaurants to lure non-travelers to his tables...