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...lover at the Court of Poitiers, and a ruler ("by the wrath of God" as she put it) in her old age. Intellectual revolt, crusades, and struggle between church and state, marked the twelfth century, and Eleanor managed to have something to do with all of them. Miss Kelly user her as a "binder" for her history...

Author: By Jerome Goodman, | Title: Queen of Two Nations | 4/26/1950 | See Source »

...another federal agency when it questioned advertising claims that Anahist and Resistab are perfectly safe when taken as directed on the package. The Food & Drug Administration, convinced that the anti-histaminics are safe in the recommended doses (usually with an added warning against driving a car if the user becomes drowsy), had allowed them to be sold without prescription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No More Sneezing . . . | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...remarkable properties of high-grade sheet mica as an insulator make it invaluable as a strategic war material, where it is essential for radio tubes, radar equipment, condensers, airplane sparkplugs. But the U.S., the world's largest user of mica, produced only 135 tons in 1948, had to import another 10,000 tons, chiefly from Brazil and India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Synthetic Mica | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Looking for other foods to fill his salesmen's trucks, Schnering was soon selling marshmallows, cookies, popcorn, soup mixes and some 80 other items. Now Curtiss sells $1.1 million in candy a week. The fact that Schnering was a big user of milk and other farm products helped start him looking around for a farm of his own. He wanted to show his suppliers how to produce high quality foodstuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Candy King Reaches Out | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

While U.S. production dropped, the U.S. displaced Great Britain as the world's biggest wool user. Consumption went up from 600 million Ibs. a year to about 1 billion Ibs. Most of this was in the finer wools. Russia, never a big buyer before the war, had also entered the market in a big way and did not seem to give a hang about the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newest Shortage | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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