Word: willow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Niles Rumely Newton had her first daughter, Willow, five years ago, she was told that she would not be able to nurse the baby. "It made me so mad,' recalls tall (5 ft. 10 in.), grey-eyed Mrs Newton, "that I insisted on trying it. Anc I succeeded." Since then, Mrs. Newton and her husband, Dr. Michael Newton, a research surgeon at the University oi Pennsylvania School of Medicine, have been interested in the problems and processes of breast feeding. In the current issue of Pediatrics, they insist that many mothers who bottle-feed their babies could breast...
...Pakistan, suspicious of the U.S., facing each other with explosive hate. If war broke out there, "the fat would be in the fire." Burma, he found, lived in fear of what could happen on her frontier zone. Siam (see cover), with 3,000,000 Chinese, was "more like a willow than...
...fire in its long cold war against Fair Trade laws (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948). Macy's previous efforts to sell merchandise below fixed prices had landed it in court on such Fair Trade charges as price-cutting Doubleday books and offering "Mallinson's pure silk pussy willow dresses" at $8.94 instead of $12.95. Macy's had won on the dresses and this time the Fair Traders might find it just as hard to curb the world's largest department store...
...That people pull down their houses, sell their wives and daughters, eat roots and carrion, clay and leaves, is news nobody wonders at. It is the regular thing . . . The poorest people are dependent on willow and elm leaves, elm bark, and the various weeds . . . All the elm trees about many of the villages are stripped of their bark as high as the starving people can manage to get; they would peel them to the top but haven't the strength...
...what raised the roof was K-F's new, still unnamed low-priced car. It is a five-passenger two-door sedan which President Edgar Kaiser hopes to sell at around $1.175 f.o.b. Willow Run-$250 cheaper than the more luxurious two-door Ford or Chevrolet. At the sight of it, Midwest dealers swarmed across the stand, lifted the 2,400-lb. car waist-high and carried it around the room...