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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, the House voted to strike off a gold medal in honor of Vice President Alben W. Berkley. The Government would keep the medal, but Barkley, along with the public, would get a chance to buy bronze duplicates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: All in Good Time | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...British National Health Service Act working out? Editor John W. McPherrin of the American Druggist (circ. 57,000) decided to see for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Welfare Island | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...Eminence, Ky., Theater Owner Arey Miles pushed a campaign to improve the unmarked grave of Cinemaster David W. Griffith, who died last year. Collected so far, from three exhibitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Native Customs | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

About ten years ago, Drs. Roy D. McClure and Frank W. Hartman of Detroit's Ford Hospital began experimenting with a photoelectric cell technique first developed in Germany. Later they were joined by Physiologist Vivian Gould Behrmann. Together the experimenters worked out an instrument which gives an almost instantaneous record of the amount of oxygen in the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Eye in the Ear | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...evokes a picture of the countryside with the sureness of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. There is no question of her success in picturing the profane and pious old people, the backwoodsmen with fine old names like Ballew and Hull, the proud parents who gave their children names like Alben W. Barkley Tiller, the farmers working on the WPA or in the automobile factories of Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fox Hunt | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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