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...empty stomach: "A plate of good thick porridge." Concerned because 10% of Britain's National Health Service prescriptions nowadays are for barbiturates, Professor Derrick Melville Dunlop of Edinburgh complained that "the average city dweller wants to be able to turn sleep on and off like a tap." He advocated abandoning bromides entirely because they are useless for insomnia, and urged the prescribing of barbiturates only sparingly and for short times-while the patient is being taught to relax and not to lie awake worrying about when he will get to sleep...
...Tap 15 Billion in Sales
...Birmingham News recently made a survey showing that the city's 130,000 Negroes (40% of the total population) have an average family income of $1,849 a year, and are regular buyers of everything from baby food to electric refrigerators. To help tap this market, some Southerners have begun employing Negro salesmen, e.g., a Negro hired by a Packard dealer in Charleston,. S.C. sold two new and three used cars in his first 15 days. The month before, the entire staff had sold Negroes only four used cars...
...Schulman had collected 10 Ibs. of research, a list of worldwide sources for other TIME correspondents to tap, and the comment from Morrison that Reporter Schulman now knew enough about the business to hire on as a construction stiff...
...bartender, a balding man with a limp and a hearing aid, rested his back against the counter, his eyes fixed on the television set in the far corner of the room. From time to time he would pick up an empty beer glass and fill it from the tap marked Kruger. The bar was speckled with little pools of beer and small change, mostly dimes and quarters. Nobody was talking...