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...even that situation would be economic ambrosia compared to the potion we would have to swallow when the war is over and the government expenditures sag from something over fifty billions of dollars to a meagre ten billion. The big post-war problem will be filling in that forty billion dollar gap. Unless there is enough private investment and consumer spending to fill it in, we will experience a gum-shoe stagnation that will make 1929 look like prosperity without the corner. We won't be able to fill it in unless new outlets for investment are opened...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: BRASS TACKS | 3/5/1942 | See Source »

Professor Perry's latest book, "On All Fronts," is a composite of impassioned idealism and salty, New England good sense. More often than not the two blend well, and the reader drinks a warming potion of faith. Occasionally, however, the author is guilty is substituting idealism for an unpleasant application in practice, and his pleas for taking up arms on all fronts is weakened...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 11/14/1941 | See Source »

Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who are none too fond of each other professionally, sang Tristan und Isolde one night last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. This popular team had impersonated Wagner's potion-bibbing lovers many a time before. But this time Tristan was an event. In the pit was the Met's first U. S.-born, U. S.-trained conductor, sandy-haired, bespectacled Edwin McArthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: McArthur Swings the Stick | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

When Isaac Pinkham lost his shirt in the 1873 panic, his wife began selling a mysterious, home-brewed potion she had long given away to distraught friends. The potion soon overflowed into a national panacea for all kinds of female complaints. After Lydia died, Aroline Pinkham Gove and Charles Pinkham, each with a 50% share of their mother's business, kept her face enshrined on every package, signed her name in answering 100,000 letters a year from grateful or suffering women. By last year Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had netted Lydia and descendants well over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: Lydia Loses | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...month -old son clamors for his adjustment, I know he builton a solid foundation. The eagerness with which my tiny patients await the applicaton of his discovery, is greater acclaim than acquiescence from so-called medical science. Imagien a child clamoring for a hyperdermic "shot" from allopathic potion peddlers. TEDFORD DENNIS, D.C. Madrid, Iowa

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1940 | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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