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Word: quadrennium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cost of treatment, $4,000,000, had almost wiped out the emergency aid fund of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Polio news was mostly bad: 1946 is the fourth consecutive epidemic year. The four-year total: 65,000 cases, more than twice as many as in the preceding quadrennium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Year | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...housing demand (a subdivision of all building) FORUM foresaw a total of $2,500,000,000. This would be a cool half-billion above the depression high of 1939, but still well below the $4,000,000,000 annual demand of building's blooming quadrennium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING: A Look at 1941 | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...June 1939 Memorial was able to move to a new twelve-story modern hospital which nearly doubled former capacity, and made Memorial the largest cancer institution in the world. Last week Memorial issued its Quadrennium Report (1936 through 1939). Highlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Hospital | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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