Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawson Veterans Administration Hospital in Atlanta, report Dr. William J. Senter and two colleagues in the current American Journal of Medicine, Noles was found to have kala-azar, a disease unknown in the U.S. until just before the war. Some symptoms of kala-azar are like those of malaria, but the invading parasite is different: a protozoon named Leishmania donovani. Once diagnosed, the disease is easily treated with daily injections of ethylstibamine, an,antimony compound. Noles went home after six weeks, pronounced cured...
...Christian men who put technics to work. Here, says Brunner, the Christian church has woefully let men down: "Is it not shameful for the Christian society that Confucian China was capable of suppressing the military use of gunpowder, while the Christian Church could not prevent . . . the development of a war machinery incomparably more dreadful...
...baseball business, beginning with the Chicago Cubs, where his father was club president. Bill himself had been everything from office boy to treasurer at Wrigley Field; in 1941, with the help of Midwest friends, he had bought control of the Milwaukee Brewers. When he moved into Cleveland after the war, he thought he knew how to give the fans their money's worth...
...look as good to everyone, notably to Federal Reserve Board Member Marriner S. Eccles. He warned that there was inflationary trouble ahead. Before a congressional subcommittee last week, he ticked off a few signals: consumer credit is now up to $17 billion, almost double what it was at war's end, and the Federal Government is running into the red at the rate of $5.5 billion a year. Too many houses are being built on too slim security, said he, and the new corporation pension plans, which he flatly called "a big mistake," will keep prices high. He thought...
Married. Sylvia Gould, 31, great-granddaughter of Jay ("Robber Baron") Gould who piled up one of the first great U.S. fortunes as a Civil War speculator and railroad tycoon, daughter of a onetime Italian governess in the Gould family; and Lieut. Commander (U.S.N.) Ernst Hoefer Jr., 29, of Sheboygan, Wis.; she for the third time, he for the first; after a false start two months ago when she broke the engagement on grounds that he refused to sign away dower rights to her estate; in Seager...