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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victor Emmanuel, in a last effort to save his line, decided to abdicate in favor of Umberto. Wearily, he penned his abdication, got the date wrong, corrected it, and paid a notary a 129-lire (15?) fee to register the document. Queen Elena cried. By this time, Italy's politicians professed not to care what he was doing or what his plans were; informed of the impending abdication, Premier Alcide de Gasperi said: "It's not even fourth or fifth on my list of matters of importance...
...Alexandria, Victor Emmanuel and his wife found a twelve-room villa, paid for it by selling $56,000 worth of jewels. From the little king's personal fortune in England (estimated at $6,300,000) the British government doled out enough for a simple existence. He took the name Count of Pollenza, after a village in northern Italy. He walked and fished. When he read of events in his ex-country, he was heard to murmur, "This will be the death of me." On Christmas Eve, 1947, he was stricken with a lung infection complicated by hardening...
...Kaiser-Frazer Corp. announced it had closed the year with almost $19,000,000 profit, out of which it had paid off a $12,000,000 Bank of America loan...
...prospect of a new $1,000,000 laboratory building and a $600,000 appropriation for research. Most of this will be spent in developing agricultural products that might create new industries. The Institute's work on sorghum as a source for dextrose and starches has already paid that kind of a dividend. Its new processes will help Corn Products Refining Co. refine some 6,000,000 bushels of sorghum a year in a projected $16,000,000 plant at Corpus Christi...
...hunted in vain for 18 months (TIME, Dec. 22), Drs. Topping and Atlas first used sterile skimmed milk to wash the nose of a man just catching cold. The solution was sprayed into the noses of volunteers (inmates of the District of Columbia's Lorton Reformatory, who were paid $3 a week). They caught cold, too. Washings were then transplanted into chick embryos; solutions from the eggs produced the same thick "sinusitis-like" colds in other volunteers. All told, 57 of 60 human guinea pigs came down with colds...