Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haunted by his inability to help that first patient, Dr. Greene decided to give up his general practice and do something for stutterers. In 1916, fortified by six years' postgraduate study in Europe, he opened a clinic in Manhattan for speech defects. It has since become the National Hospital for Speech Disorders, treating as many as 4,000 patients a year (and instructing hundreds of patients' parents...
...teachers were to expect less of boys than of girls in the way of speech development at any given age level, there would be fewer male speech sufferers at later stages." The importance of the early years is shown by the fact that 90% of stutterers began stuttering by six...
...Six Hours Across. The Comet can, however, cut the long, boring flight across the Atlantic almost in half. It is expected to make New York nonstop from London in six to seven hours; it would be no trick at all to make a round trip in a day. Four hops could get it to Australia in 36 hours. De Havilland hopes that many passengers in a hurry will gladly pay extra for speed...
...newly formed Actors' Company,' plans to build a $2,000,000 showplace housing a year-round theater in Beverly Hills. Former RKO Chief Peter Rathvon heads the company; its other officers are Peck, Ferrer, Rosalind Russell and Producer Jerry Wald. The project calls for the production of six plays a year for a run of at least six weeks each, with every member of a star-cluttered board of directors already agreed to appear every season...
Everybody had been prepared for some pretty glum news when the profits accounts for 1949's first six months were totted up. Last week, with most of the earnings figures in, the news was surprisingly good. Out of 425 companies reporting, about 40% had bettered their 1948 profits; only 27 companies lost money...