Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elda bought the old Weaver homestead, which had passed out of the family. The early years were hard, but the Kuesters pulled through, says Gus, "by chickens, hogs and going without." They pulled through also thanks to the patient devotion of Elda Kuester. Over the years hogs paid the mortgage (today the land is worth $225 an acre), and the Kuesters received the final patent of ownership: the neighbors began to call the old Weaver place the Kuester farm. There were born Dale and a pretty daughter, Shirley, now 19, who sometimes acts as her father's official secretary...
...results were sometimes as painful as the pictures of Coolidge in an Indian war bonnet. Lord Halifax remained just as quiet, just as impenetrable, just as incomprehensible to the nation's Brooklyns and Broadways. Halifax never said or did anything very startling, but his patient kindness, that at first seemed to some the mere mask of condescension, convinced the U.S. at last that it was the genuine article. The U.S. decided that Halifax would never be at home in a ball park, but he was good goods. Brooklyn and Broadway knew that he could take it. Now that...
Like any competent physician, British-born Charles Siepmann, former BBC director, Harvard lecturer and FCC consultant, began with a documented case history of his patient. For many a suffering listener, it was the best analysis yet of radio's excesses...
This financial debauchery was such fun, he reports, that the patient became proud of it. For proof Siepmann cites last year's president of the NAB, J. Harold Ryan...
While critics of soap opera and windy commercials discussed what was wrong with the soul of U.S. radio, the patient's body grew & grew. In the calendar year 1944, reported the Federal Communications Commission, the nine networks and 875 standard broadcast stations in the U.S. and its possessions had reported profits, before taxes, of $90,272,851, an increase of 35.8% over the previous year...