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...that the baby does not take such a beating in being born. Dr. Hingson's conclusion: if his method could be applied to all U.S. deliveries with the same results he has obtained to date, it would save half of the annual 125,000 babies who are stillborn or die in the first week of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Safe, Painless Birth? | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...mysterious Rh factor-in human blood had disturbed the serenity of many a mother-to-be. For if a wife's blood were Rh negative and a husband's Rh positive, their child might be stillborn, or born with erythroblastosis fetalis, characterized by anemia and jaundice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Rh Factor | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Each year has its crop of big babies. Doctors, who believe what they see, list a 25-lb. stillborn girl in 1916 as the largest on U.S. record. Last week medium-sized Mrs. Francis Strohl, 38, wife of a Lawton, Pa. lumberman, gave birth to a baby girl who would be hefty in any year: 18 Ibs. The child, her mother's 15th, was reported in fine condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Heavyweight | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Once again freedom of the press put the dictator on the spot. Snorted Rio's Diario Carioca: "The 'Additional Act' is stillborn." Snapped former deputy Dario de Almeida Magalhaes: "The 'Additional Act' . . . Additional to what? ... To a constitution which doesn't exist!" Sneered sober old-line statesman Virgilio de Mello Franco: "All the fascism that can be maintained has been maintained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Democracy by Decree | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

...millions of small stockholders at 40% and up on their corporate income when their in dividual tax bracket is much lower; 3) because high corporation taxes raise, some times pyramid, the cost of goods; tend to keep down wages, make investment so unattractive that much employment dies stillborn out of "tax considerations." To prevent use of corporations to avoid personal taxes, Ruml proposes a 16% tax on undistributed profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: The New Argument | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

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