Word: relief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Perón's advisers had hoped that the decrees would get quick dollar relief via ECA, they got a rude shock at week's end. In Washington ECA published its biggest shopping list so far for Latin America. Heading the list was Chile, due to get $12,619,000 for copper and nitrogen fertilizer for Italy, France, Britain and The Netherlands. Mexico would receive $4,000,000 for corned beef for Germany, Venezuela $12 million for petroleum products for Europe. All told, the list totted up to $32,355,398. Argentina was not even...
Welcomed by the Detroit Institute of Arts was Mrs. Edsel Ford's $100,000 low relief in stone from her late husband's collection.* It was 15th Century Sculptor Desiderio da Settignano's Profile Portrait of a Young Woman, who managed to look both wistful and stately...
More than 20,000 cases have been reported in medical journals. In the current Connecticut State Medical Journal, Drs. Max L. Berlowe and Francis L. Herrick describe the results of 200 cases in the Grace-New Haven (Conn.) Community Hospital. Of the first 100 patients, 76% got complete relief from pain; of the second 100 patients, 96%. Only complications: headache and short periods of nausea and vomiting (possibly not due to the anesthetic). There was no dangerous lowering of blood pressure, a frequent complication in childbirth...
Died. Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones, 85, Quaker patriarch co-founder and chairman of the American Friends Service Committee from 1917 to 1928; in Haverford, Pa. Longtime philosophy professor at Haverford College (1904-34), he directed the spending of $25 million for relief after World War I; later, as chairman of European relief, helped care for war orphans in Spain and Jews in Germany...
...plant (Metropolitan Machine Shops, Inc., maker of machine parts and auto jacks), he borrowed $99,970 from the bank, without very close questioning. When Benjamin later confessed to frauds totaling $493,000 (and went to Sing Sing), Title Guarantee expressed shock, but it also gave off embarrassed sighs of relief. Alone among Benjamin's big creditors, Title Guarantee had been repaid in full...