Word: savers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many surgeons have been cutting out complete rest for operative and childbed patients, and the medical men may eventually catch up in learning that a few minutes' activity four or five times a day can be a great comfort-and a life saver...
...cowman's contemptuous word for oleomargarine is bull butter. Last fall the Iowa Farm Bureau, to whom the cow is sacred, got Iowa State College to suppress a scientific pamphlet praising bull butter as a wartime labor saver (TIME, Oct. 11). Whereupon Professor Theodore Schultz, head of the college's famed, farm-focused Department of Economics and Sociology, declared that faculty morale was jeopardized and switched to the University of Chicago. By last week 19 other teachers had quit the college on leave or permanently. Twelve were from Professor Schultz's department, whose remnant inevitably seems cowed...
Long have United directors cast their eyes in envy at the sweet Walgreen profits. Once they proposed a merger, but Walgreen would have none of it. The latest corporate stirrings came when Life Saver's Edward John Noble, former Under Secretary of Commerce, began to work on a new idea. The idea: to put Walgreen's Justin Dart, then footloose, at the head of the Liggett chain. Noble & associates enlarged their United stockholdings, lined up their friends, put on some pressure. Quietly, and amid seeming satisfaction all around, young Mr. Dart last week stepped in to see what...
...port-to-port convoy-a thing which is impossible for coastal shipping at a time when the U.S. Navy is busy convoying to Australia, to Iceland, to the Middle East. But the U.S. Navy has begun to develop a substitute which may prove to be a lifeline-saver: convoy by blimp...
...most elaborate. Visitors, ushered in by an attendant, strolled through a labyrinthine gallery designed (by Lee Simonson) like a Coney Island house of mystery. As they paused before each picture, lights flashed on and a concealed sound mechanism honked a short lecture describing its notable points. No money saver, this sound-equipped tour, which ranged from Greek sculpture to Cézanne apples, cost about $14,000 ($10,000 of it a grant from the Carnegie Corp...