Word: nostrums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a generation ago, anemia was both a common and a fashionable complaint. It was good for endless speculative chatter, because doctors understood little about it, and nearly every patient had his (or more often her) favorite patent nostrum. Last week, Salt Lake City's Dr. Maxwell Myer Wintrobe told a Manhattan audience of doctors how drastically the anemia story has changed in a mere three decades...
Last week Humphrey, who had wanted to put more of the U.S. debt into long-term bonds, was forced to swallow a short-term financing nostrum which had lain unused on the shelf since 1934. He will offer $5.5 to $6 billion worth of income-tax anticipation certificates, paying 2½% and maturing in eight months. As an added inducement, the certificates will pay interest to March 22, 1954, even if used March 15 to pay taxes. Humphrey hopes to sell at least $1 billion of the certificates to non-bank buyers, but expects banks to take the rest...
Education has long been a drug on the nostrum market. Professional problem-solvers, from pedagogues to the Reader's Digest variety, depend on it to escape the difficulties in their solutions and it is firmly enshrined in the American Success Story. A nation governed by philosopher-kings, with the entire population sharing the royal purple, is a splendid sentiment for commencements, one which graduating seniors will no doubt hear again and again...
...them, so the Daughters had to look for their own brand of protection. In 1950, the Daughters passed a resolution urging "the observance of national holidays as an antidote to the influx of aliens." But they also noted that holidays were slipping and hastened to support them. Their special nostrum, the Fourth of July, needed some pep, so they advocated "a return to the former ringing of bells, pageants and parades...
...named a trustee to try to get the prostrate horse to its feet again, a new whiplash struck it. The Federal Trade Commission complained that Hadacol's leeringly prurient ballyhoo ("The Hadacol boogie makes you boogie-woogie all the time") is "false, misleading and deceptive" in representing the nostrum as "an effective treatment and cure for scores of ailments and diseases...