Word: wonderment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if Mr. Charles Mortimer [Dec. 7] and his "factory maids" have given any thought to how mankind should eventually be reincarnated: canned, frozen, made from ready-mix or just plain "cold and serve"? G. E. HASSE...
...subscription rate up, both papers suffered the circulation loss inevitable in a rural area where thrift-conscious farmers are inclined to drop the big-city paper rather than pay more. Together, the Star and the Times have 671,188 subscribers today, down some 40,000 since 1949. Staffers wonder, too, who will take over when Roy Roberts decides to retire. His key editors have worked long years in his shadow; behind him stands no one groomed to take his place...
...Peter's Avenue. "We were a typical Italian family," says Anne, "very lower middle class." Mamma was the boss. It was Mamma, working as a telephone operator at Macy's, who ordained that of her three daughters chubby Anna Maria would become an actress. "I sometimes wonder if it was worth putting her through all this," says Mrs. Italiano today...
...public, the U.S. drug industry would like to appear as a dedicated, white-coated scientist skillfully brewing one wonder drug after another. But Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, long has had ambitions to paint a different picture -of an industry that fixes prices too high. Last week, opening an investigation of drugmakers, the Keef got in his broad strokes as soon as nervous industry witnesses settled uncomfortably in their hot seats...
...people think that wonder drugs, such as prednisolone, which enables bedridden arthritics to walk, cost too much, said Brown haughtily, the problem is "inadequate income rather than excessive prices." In reply, the subcommittee staff brought out that Schering bought some hormone tablets at 12? per 60 from a French manufacturer, wholesaled them as "Progynon" for $8.40 with a consumer price of $14-a 7,079% markup...