Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another employer whose labor costs have gone up, Western Union Telegraph Co. sought relief in higher prices (TIME, April 1). Last week the Federal Communications Commission gave Western Union what it wanted: a 10% overall rate increase, and the elimination of special cheap message services. The increase, said FCC, was an "emergency measure" for one year to keep Western Union from operating at a deficit of $1,000,000 a month, caused chiefly by a 21% increase in wages. Despite the emergency, FCC refused to let Western Union do away with the 20% discount it now gives...
First, the eminently cautious and reliable Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine detailed the powers of a new drug named Anthallan. "Relief of a high percentage of cases" of hay fever was claimed...
Just marketed, and discussed last week in the Journal of Allergy, was another new hay fever drug called Benadryl. Experiments have indicated that Benadryl is an all-or-none drug; it gives complete relief to some 50% to 85% of allergy victims, helps the rest of them not a bit. When it works, it relieves both rashes and runny noses, sometimes makes patients drowsy, must be taken every few hours in capsule form...
...Benadryl, it suppresses allergy symptoms by acting against histamine-a substance which is released in the blood stream and causes tissues to break out as rashes or wet noses (or so the latest allergy theory goes). Anthallan, in contrast, behaves more like ephedrine, the well-known drug which gives relief by shrinking the mucous membranes...
...Land. Histrionically, the battle is a draw. Typical O'Brien low-blow: "Why does your nose run when your feet get wet? Your feet don't run when your nose gets wet." Typical Beery haymaker: bulging the screen full of a face as massively seamed as a relief map. There is also an Indian raid, during which Miss O'Brien routs a brave with a peashooter. Because enough people enjoy that one, Bad Bascomb is already on the lists of box-office bests...