Word: nostrums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a Journal consultant, ignoring recent enthusiastic claims for anti-histaminics*nothing has been found to prevent or cure colds. This goes for salves, nose drops, gargles, vaccines and every other nostrum. All that the victim can do is try to get some relief. For a stuffy nose, drops are helpful (though sometimes they boomerang and cause renewed stuffiness). Aspirin soothes headache, fever and muscle pains which go with a cold. Alcohol, the Journal concedes, "in reasonable doses," expands the blood vessels and restores circulation to chilled skin and mucous membrane. But the old standby, rest in bed, is still...
...that Europe, after eight years of bad crops, would have a normal harvest. The peak of the export boom had passed and, with a loosening of raw materials all around, there would be more goods for the U.S. in 1948. While the U.S. still worried over finding some magic nostrum to curb inflation, some slight curbs were already at work. Credit was being tightened up; the Federal Government was running a surplus, also deflationary...
Actually the only magic nostrum was more production, which would help the world to help itself. Looking at the export-import gap, no trader could soundly think that this was going to be an easy job. In 1947, the U.S. had made a tiny down payment on the job of reviving world trade. It had agreed to cut tariffs. Tariff cutting was meaningless unless other nations were able to make the goods to sell the U.S. And 1947 had shown that the gap between what they received and what they shipped was too big to cross without a new kind...
...November nostrum for the Crimson appears to be the short flat or up-the-middle passes. Kenary to end Red Hill, which, when Kenary was at left halfback, usually registered a long toss, will now mean a shorter but probably surer gain...
...opportunist publisher of Paris' recently pro-Nazi Le Matin, brother of the late famed engineer, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, who helped start the Panama Canal; in Paris. In appreciation of Le Matin's sup port, the invading Nazis ordered large quantities of Synthol, an externally ap plied headache nostrum under Bunau-Varilla's control...