Word: coldness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thousands of people write to me every December. My greatest delight has been in filling their requests and doing little things to make them happy. I receive many heart-breaking letters at Christmas time. Our post office is not a cold business institution...
Partly Moral, Partly Selfish. The Marquot workers live in pleasant cottages for which they pay the company a nominal rent, work in spotlessly clean factory buildings. There are hot and cold showers (available to wives & children on Saturday), a hospital, a library. Gustave Marquot, who inherited the 90-year-old family business last year, is a fairly typical member of Le Centre des Jeunes Patrons (Center of Young Employers), which is trying to build a brighter future for free enterprise in France. The Young Employers are against the predatory capitalism of the past, but they also want to keep France...
...public, forever hopeful of finding a cure for the common cold, was eagerly buying newfangled pills last week. The drugs, heretofore available only on a doctor's prescription, were selling over drug counters as fast and freely as bubble...
...drugs were anti-histaminics, developed in the last few years for relief of allergies (notably hay fever and asthma). Because they set off such side effects as drowsiness and dizziness in some patients, the Food & Drug Administration had kept them on the prescription list. Doctors, noting that many cold symptoms seem to be allergic in nature, have tried the anti-histaminics on cold sufferers, but the varied results left them far from enthusiastic...
Last week, under the trade name of Anahist, neohetramine was being advertised and sold as a preventive and cure for the common cold. Other drug companies were scrambling for a piece of this obviously rich market. An affiliate of the Schering Corp. was pushing another anti-histaminic under the name Inhiston, and more trade-named cold pills were...