Word: ticks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a Beginning. Penicillin is already big business, yet Dr. Fleming (who discovered it) and Dr. Florey (who made it tick) have got nothing out of it but praise-doctors generally do not patent drugs. Penicillin will save more lives than war spends, but there has been no military citation. Most tangible recognition so far was the Award of Merit of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association given to Drs. Fleming & Florey last December. Several months ago, a proposal to give Dr. Fleming a grant from the public funds was brought up in Parliament, but nothing came...
Grey Future. Politically, the Court's decision was a time bomb with a steadily accelerating tick. The bomb may go off at any minute. Much depends on the general patience of the U.S. people. For soon the whole U.S. will have to listen to about as much Southern oratory on the race question as anyone can reasonably endure. For of all things, the first item of business scheduled to come up before the returning Congress is the Marcantonio anti-poll-tax bill...
...Lucas-Green bill was aimed at transferring the machinery of soldier balloting from State hands to a Federal War Ballot Commission. The longer the Senate held the Lucas-Green bill, the more it seemed to tick like a bomb. Several members struggled courageously to extract the fuse. Finally, at week's end, the whole infernal-looking thing was thrown out. In its place, the Senate passed what amounted to a pious resolution: let the individual states conduct elections, as always. Let them arrange for their own absentee soldiers to vote. (This arrangement, followed in the 1942 elections...
...World," more talk about the New Deal's home failures. In Denver, Mr. Willkie seemed to have reached the same conclusion. "We must face the fact," he acknowledged, "that the people of this country believe-with certain reservations-that the present Administration understands what makes the world tick." Then he lit into the Democrats domestically: too long in office, too powerful, too wasteful, too inept...
Conference over, Field lunches with his men in the News cafe. Afternoons he strides around learning what makes a newspaper tick. Several times he has tried, not too successfully, writing editorials himself. He usually goes home...