Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Testing centers were set up in Birmingham's filling stations, theater lobbies, churches, every available public gathering place. A huge serological laboratory in a basement of Hillman Hospital, at the University of Alabama's medical school, examined as many as 15,000 blood specimens a day. The city blossomed with placards announcing "free treatment for syphilis." While they were about it, health officials offered voluntary gonorrhea treatments, exhorting the citizenry by posters, newspapers and spot radio announcements, with the promise: "PENICILLIN CURES GONORRHEA IN FOUR HOURS." The U.S. Public Health Service came across with the penicillin...
...Polio is usually transmitted by personal contact, asserted Birmingham's Dr. Albert Casey in the American Journal of Diseases of Children. After tracing the sources of So cases in rural Alabama, he concluded that in that locality 1) the disease spread radially from the initial case, enlarging its circle at a rate of about a mile every ten days; 2) no outside agents such as rodents, food or insects seemed to be involved...
Three days later Alabama's Representative John J. Sparkman rose in the House, announced the junction of U.S. and Russian troops in Germany. The House applauded. Then, without a record vote, it unanimously approved what the Senate had done, sent the draft act and its restriction to the White House...
Around Pittsburgh, Ray Sprigle (rhymes with wiggle) is known as a hard-digging, hell-for-leather newsman. He once had himself admitted to a psychopathic hospital, so that he could expose conditions there. Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black remembers him as the man who went to Alabama in 1937, dug up Black's past membership in the Ku Klux Klan, and won a Pulitzer Prize...
...Alabama's New Dealing Senator Lister Hill called on his state to "follow the admirable example set by Georgia" (TIME, Feb. 12) and repeal the poll tax. His proposal was 1) cheered by editorialists, 2) ignored by Alabama legislators...