Word: scalps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Because Congress' pork-barrel price for domestic silver (71.11? an oz. v. 35⅛? for foreign metal) keeps it out of the industrial market, Manhattan Silver Dealers Handy & Harman had to prorate their customers. Yet Silver Senators last week were after Henry Morgenthau's scalp for trying to repeal the Silver Purchase...
...Buck Byrd rides again," cracked Washington newshawks. Down the warpath, sure enough, padded Economizer Harry Byrd of Virginia, his apple cheeks stained winesap-red with indignation. He was still after the scalp of OCD; and he was hot on the trail. He had discovered that OCD had still stranger captives in its tepee than Dancer Mayris Chancy (resigned...
...sufferer may feel, the ache is never in the brain itself. Brain tissue, a grey and white mass of nerve cells and fibers, can be punctured, crushed or even burned without causing the slightest sensation of pain. But the veins and arteries which feed the brain and scalp, the membranes that cover the brain, some of the nerves of the head and neck are excruciatingly sensitive (see cut). Most headaches, said Dr. Wolff, come from the dilatation of these blood vessels or from some growth or injury, like a brain tumor, that exerts a pull on them...
...Great-grandfather of all headaches is the torture of migraine, caused by distention of blood vessels in the scalp. Its victims are agonizingly sensitive to light and sound. Injections of vitamin BI sometimes give relief (TIME...
...open this week came the strangest internal fight in U.S. airline history. The battlers: nimble, Washington-wise, $60,000,000 Pan American Airways v. cagev, 90-year-old, multi-million-dollar W. R. Grace & Co., shippers, bankers and international traders. Pan Am boasts many a foe's scalp; Grace has a reputation for never losing a battle. The prize is domination of a great airline they started together, Pan American-Grace Airways (Panagra). The only important airline on the whole west coast of South America, Panagra flies over 8,000 route-miles from the Canal Zone to Santiago...