Word: painful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tenants and landlords disguised their happiness well. Some tenants and labor groups quickly condemned the formula, but most weren't sure how the plan would affect them. The vocal, well-organized real-estate groups yelped in noisy pain. "It's a phony and a fraud," cried one big Boston apartment owner. Landlords claimed that Woods's formula was based on false mathematics, took no account of the value of their property. According to many landlords, they would be collecting only 2 to 3% on the "fair value" of their properties even if they could wangle an increase...
...Manhattan in 1946, he learned to his surprise and pain that U.S. dress designers considered Paris washed up as the fashion center of the world. Back home he looked up a then-obscure friend named Christian Dior, sketched a plan of action and cried, "There is no other way. You must be Joan of Arc!" Bérard, his friends believe, was the real begetter of the "New Look...
...some 7,000,000 victims in the U.S. Looking for a cure, doctors have tried just about everything, including high-calorie diets, low-calorie diets, vitamins A, B, C and D, typhoid vaccine, streptococcus vaccine, artificial fever, blood transfusions, injections of milk and horse serum, aspirin and whisky (for pain), massage, dry heat, mineral baths, metals such as gold, change of climate, psychotherapy, exercise and rest in bed. Some of the treatments proved to be harmless, some harmful. Some even seemed to work, but only for a while...
Substance X. In 1929 Dr. Hench noticed that men & women with arthritis suffered less pain when they had jaundice. Women suffered less when they were pregnant. He noticed too that patients who had surgical operations got better for a while (during an operation, the adrenal cortex, or outer layer of the adrenal gland, is stimulated...
...showed great improvement soon after injections of large doses of Compound E (as much as 100 milligrams a day). The first patient was a woman who was barely able to get out of bed. By the third day she was walking with only a slight limp; a week later, pain and muscular stiffness had almost disappeared. But improvement ended when the drug was stopped. After varying periods without the drug, the patients were back where they started. Two other patients are being treated, with similar results, with another hormone called ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone), a pituitary gland secretion that stimulates...