Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pocketful of Cash. Men & women who had seldom had one coin to rub against another suddenly heard an unmistakable jingle from their pockets. Girls who had worked as maids for room, board and peanuts found factory jobs at $100-$200 a month. A Manhattan physician's maid quit to move into her own home: her husband, out of work for years, now made $26 a day pouring cement...
...less serious if the U.S. were able to produce large amounts of the synthetic drug atabrine, a coal-tar substitute for quinine, developed ten years ago. Almost as effective as quinine, atabrine is less suitable for large-scale use, for it is more toxic, should be given under a physician's supervision...
Perhaps those who appreciated him most were the 8,000 women in Chicago's slums whom Dr. DeLee had delivered of babies during his 40-odd years of practice. In 1895, the poor young physician, son of Jewish immigrant parents, scraped together $500, collected a stove, table, chairs and linen, bought two secondhand beds, and started Chicago's first free maternity dispensary in a $12-a-month tenement flat...
...forsakes Claudine just as she thought she had found someone in whom to confide; there is Miss Sergent, the former headmistress, whom Claudine detests because she senses that the older woman's interest in her is beyond what it should be; and Docteur Dubois, a dashing young physician with whom Claudine falls in love as terribly and superficially as only girls of her age can. The worst moment of her life, when Dubois suddenly introduces her to his fiancee, on graduation day, is soon forgotten in the happiness and gayety of the occasion...
Franklin Roosevelt, who thrives on salt air, missed the fishing trips prescribed in peacetime by Rear Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, the White House physician. He missed his regular dips in the White House swimming pool, for which even weekends were now too crowded, and the relaxation of an Old-Fashioned before a leisurely dinner. He was more subject to head colds, had more trouble throwing them off. But he still kept his weight down to 186, could still cast off his burdens and get a night's sound sleep; he could still laugh. If he could get away...