Word: painlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie industry was perforce to be cut off from its theaters, RKO's Howard Hughes wanted to make the operation as painless as possible. While the rest of the industry awaited court action on the Department of Justice's demand for a formal separation of picture-making and picture-showing (TIME, Oct. 11), Hughes last week got his RKO directors to authorize a voluntary agreement with the Government's trustbusters. This was the first break in Hollywood's united front against the Department of Justice...
...there was no such painless way to deflate the boom. There was one way, however. It was to recognize that expenditures for rearmament and foreign relief were pumping the U.S. economy up to a wartime basis-and to act accordingly...
...Last fortnight London University Psychologist James Arthur Hadfield solemnly suggested in the British Medical Journal that painless childbirth might kill a mother's love for her child...
...Last fortnight London University Psychologist James Arthur Hadfield solemnly suggested in the British Medical Journal that painless childbirth might kill a mother's love for her child...
...Akron's Children's Hospital. A deep injection of liver extract for anemia is painful, and babies usually howl vigorously when they get one-but not Beverly; she didn't even whimper. Hospital doctors examined her more closely. They decided that she really is a "painless" baby suffering from "indifference to injury, of congenital origin"; she cries only when hungry or angry. It is a rare condition (first described ten years ago by Johns Hopkins Neurologist Frank R. Ford), probably due to a defect in the central nervous system. No cure is known. Last week Beverly...