Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proud, slight (105 lb.) man, known professionally as Tom, is the owner of one of the strangest stomachs in existence. This stomach was the subject last week of a book (Human Gastric Function; Oxford University Press; $4.75), by Drs. Stewart Wolf and Harold G. Wolff of Manhattan's New York Hospital. Says famed Physiologist Walter B. Cannon in his foreword: "The functions of the stomach have never been investigated with the detailed care, the skill and ingenuity" that Drs. Wolf & Wolff display in their researches on Tom's stomach...
...sewer laborer during the depression, the bleeding got so bad that he had to let a surgeon remove some of the bleeding tissue. The convalescence was long and Tom had to go on relief. This hurt his pride-he had always managed to support his family. So Drs. Wolf & Wolff asked Tom to better his lot and do medicine a service by taking a job as clean-up man in their laboratory and serving as an experimental subject. Tom was worried and broke, but it took four months to persuade...
A.W.O.L.: A wolf on the loose...
They Tip the Scales. The great value of the escort carriers lies in their ability to break up wolf pack attacks before the U-boats get within firing range. Hitting swiftly, the TBFs and fighters can disrupt the careful coordination, the intricate patterns of attack on which the success of the submarines depends. Small though they are, the escorts are tipping the scales in the fight to get the convoys through...
...billion had been spent, ten times the average annual outlay of the New Deal's palmiest spending days; 2) though revenues were $22 billion, up four times the prewar average, the Federal debt had jumped from $40 billion (1939) to $137 billion. Economists who once cried "Wolf" at $8 billion F.D.R. budgets had no words left now to report their horror at the ever-widening gap ($56 billion in fiscal 1943) between what the U.S. Government took in and what it spent. The name of that gap was inflation...