Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the help of Merck & Co. chemists, they developed a compound from the adrenal glands of cattle. It was called Compound E (full name: 17-hydroxy-11-de-hydrocorticosterone). Compound E belongs to the steroid group of body chemicals. So do the sex hormones (a link with relief during pregnancy) and some bile products of the liver (a link with jaundice). Compound E was obtained later from an element of bile. Seven months ago Mayo's began treating human patients...
...Cambridge, Mass., home of the annual titanic, reports from Still-man Infirmary indicated that all was not well in the Lampoon camp. Apparently suffering from an overdoes of a mysterious oriental drug, the Poonsters were lying on beds of pair tonight. "We were tricked,' groaned Oliveyl Q"isling, relief hurler. "I suspect Deceitful Cockatoo of feeding the team some poisoned rhubarbs at the game...
...Taft and Hill bills provide for the indigent in the manner of a relief agency. In contrast, the Truman proposal covers more than half of the nation. It absorbs most of the shock for that enormous group who can afford proper care for serious illnesses only at the expense of their normal standard of living. Harry Truman summed it up as well as anybody could: "Medical care is needed as a right and not as a medical dole...
...democracies a new sense of unity, and implicit assurance that the U.S. meant to go to war if the Red army tried to invade Western Europe; but the treaty, by the very fact that it also committed Western Europe to stand against aggression, had thrown into sharp and shocking relief...
Twice last week, wind & weather pushed the smog down so low that it cut visibility at street level. Moviemakers gave up plans for outdoor shooting and concentrated instead on interior scenes. Hundreds of citizens' eyes began to smart and water. Scientists could offer them no relief. There were scores of substances in smog: which of them caused eye irritation was still a mystery...