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Chicago's Lying-in Hospital proudly announced the birth of its bouncingest baby. Delivered last week, after prolonged labor, and published by the hospital's Mothers' Aid organization, it is a new and radically revised edition of a baby record book, Our Baby's First Seven Years, Available in four bindings of varying luxe ($2.98 to $5.98), it has proved its appeal in 26 previous printings (more than 1,500,000 copies), from which profits of $300,000 have been plowed back into maternity research. Going far beyond the skeletal birth, height, weight and teething records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How Baby Grows | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...textile trust Snia Viscosa, known to have fat profiteering spoils, declared only its ordinary dividend. The State was said to be "persuading" all Italy's great corporations to carry war profits as "reserves"-with likelihood that the State may later take most of these by a special tax. Bouncingest Italian war baby stocks are mercury shares which have trebled since September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Up, Up, Up | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Fiscal 1940 will not have been swaddled in Franklin Roosevelt's budget message until this week, but its pre-natal cries promised a worthy successor to fiscal 1939. the bouncingest budget ($8,985,000,000) of all. They brought worrying to the bedside such influential Democratic physicians as John Nance Garner, South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd. In Boston last month Senator Byrd expounded his worries about spending which he blamed on the "crackpot" .theories of Marriner Stoddard Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. This week Chairman Eccles, a banker who favors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Eccles on Economics | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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