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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Government is preparing to pay out a record $70 million in laboratory fees for medical research in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950. Under the U.S. Public Health Service, the National Institutes of Health hold the strings on the fattest purse, over $46 million, up 25% over last year. Funds for work on heart disease show the biggest jump, from less than...
...however, does not mean much to a Jap songwriter. Because of a record shortage and slow sheet-music sales, Hattori makes only about 7,000 yen ($16.66) a song. Last month he wrote 20, including several for his movie biography, Eternal Enthusiasm...
Other Protestant leaders and groups sided with the Lutherans. In Nashville, Tenn., the 20th annual convention of Southern Baptist colleges and schools passed a resolution deploring "this unwarranted criticism" and officially regretting the action of the "distinguished American churchman." In Boston, the American Unitarian Association cited its record of opposition to "any legislation that would compromise the traditional principle of church and state," and to any groups "who would try to secure public money . . . for their private institutions...
There were signs, too, that U.S. consumers were spending again. The Federal Reserve Board reported that April had witnessed the end of the unraveling in textiles and some other nondurable goods. June installment buying hit an alltime record of $9.1 billion. And despite the increase in unemployment, the rate of personal income was still running above 1948. Some businessmen began to feel almost as cheerful as General Mills's Chairman Harry A. Bullis, who said last week: "We are on our way towards a soundly priced American prosperity that can be sustained...
...ever equaled Cesare Borgia's record for quick promotion. Cesare was the bastard son of Vatican Vice-Chancellor Rodrigo Borgia and his mistress Vanozza de Catanei. When he was only six, he was made Canon of Valencia. At 15, he became Bishop of Pamplona; at 16, archbishop of Valencia; at 17, a cardinal. Only the papal throne itself stood ahead of young Cardinal Borgia, but since that was now occupied by his crafty father (who had become Pope Alexander VI), the frustrated youngster started looking around for other worlds to conquer...