Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...years the Department built eleven health centres and a laboratory. Last year nearly 140,000 persons were X-rayed for tuberculosis - an all-time high - and hundreds of new cases discovered. The Department helped diagnose, treat and prevent such diseases as syphilis, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid, diphtheria. Private practitioners make ample use of the Department's laboratory service, which helps diagnose rare diseases such as parrot fever, leprosy, tularemia (rabbit fever...
...Salome, blazingly conducted by Artur Rodzinski; and the best of modern Italian works, The Love of Three Kings, conducted by its Composer Italo Montemezzi. Best opera in English was Verdi's Falstaff, retranslated from the Italian to sound something like Shakespeare. Baritone John Charles Thomas patterned his make-up from a Falstaff beer advertisement, said "Falstaff is just a plain red-nosed comedian to me," acted that way. He got one of his laughs by singing, right out, "Go to hell...
...board of trustees suddenly ousted three of their number: Edward G. Budd, famed builder of automobile bodies 'and streamlined trains; Ernest T. Trigg, a conservative paint manufacturer; and Rev. John Archibald MacCallum, a liberal Presbyterian pastor and oldtime friend of Founder Conwell. Soon ex-Trustee MacCallum began to make charges. For no obvious reason, eminent Surgeon W. Wayne Babcock of the medical school jumped into the fray with countercharges. Their cat-&-dog fight was joined by Dean Parkinson, Realtor-Trustee Albert Monroe Greenfield, perennial storm centre of Philadelphia business, banking and politics. Like other ventures in which Businessman-Politico...
...philosophy, FORTUNE'S Forum tossed a cautious but impressive bouquet to Trustbuster Thurman Arnold. His statement that "The first concern of every democracy is the maintenance of a free market" brought 58.7% agreement (27.7% in toto, 31% in part), with utility and railmen again lagging behind. Asked to make a choice between General Johnson's defunct NRA pro-price-fixing policy, and the Arnold anti-price-fixing program, the Forum gave Arnold the edge: NRA, 22%; Arnold, 33%; "depends," 45%. More striking were its views on particular prices. A clear majority (from 63.1% to 81.8%) reasoned that lasting...
...they might all have gone down in a sea of verbiage without the mood of pursuing doom running from scene to scene. For this, the bows may well go to Cameraman Tony Gaudio, whose slanting shadows and subdued photography make the tropic atmosphere more ominous than the leer of any villain...