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...Last week the President . . . signed a bill to tighten standards for on-the-job training of veterans" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 9, 1946 | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Physiologists believe that in many cases high blood pressure is caused by hormones which tighten blood vessels and interfere with the normal flow of body fluids. A University of Pennsylvania researcher now reports that he has identified one of them, has had promising results with extra doses of the pressure-raising hormone itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormone & Foe | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...Signed a bill to tighten standards for on-the-job training of veterans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Affairs, Aug. 19, 1946 | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...citizen was not alone in sacrificing. Britain, Canada, even abundant Argentine set in motion plans to tighten their citizens' belts, increase their food contributions to prevent a world tragedy (see INTERNATIONAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Action | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...budget was the pending $3,750,000,000 U.S. loan. Without that, warned Dalton, Britain would have to cut imports sharply, revamp all figures, tighten trade controls. But the "if" grew less "iffy"; the bill for the loan was sent to the U.S. Senate floor last week with a 14-to-5 vote of approval by the Banking & Currency Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pots, Pans and Profits | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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