Word: booklets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Compulsory health insurance, says this propaganda, encourages malingering, actually costs more than private medical care, is "detrimental to the nation's health." Under the English health insurance system, says one booklet, "the . . . patient will not hesitate to come along into the waiting-room collarless and even coatless, nor does it add to the comfort of other patients when one is compelled to put up a large notice [asking] . . . patients . . . not to spit on the floor...
...true that the plant kingdom takes a mild, sporadic revenge on the plant-eating animal kingdom by arranging for certain plants to trap, devour and digest insects, worms, larvae, tiny fish, Crustacea-even birds, mice, frogs. Last week Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History published a booklet, Carnivorous Plants, by Botanist Sophia Prior, describing these plants and their predatory procedures...
...booklet explaining TIME'S Index and the principles on which it is based, may be obtained by writing the Editor of TIME, TIME & LIFE Building, New York City...
...January 1933, a Hot Springs detective called on Joe in connection with an application he had filed for U. S. citizenship. In Joe's room the detective spied the Communist booklet, pocketed it. Joe's citizenship examinations then turned into an investigation of Joe's politics by agents of the Immigration Bureau. They arrested him under the 1918-20 law which says that any alien advocating forcible overthrow of the U. S. Government, or ganging with folk who so advocate, shall be deported...
Weaver's booklets are generally small, black-covered, generously illustrated by drawings, many of which he swipes from magazine advertisements and alters to his purpose, thus saving money. A student of typefaces, he sometimes uses 40 in a single booklet. His favorite is New Pica typewriter type, very simple. One way or another he makes his questionnaires as interesting as a game. At first, in fact, recipients were so pleased with them that they would not return them. Weaver solved this by sending them out in duplicate, letting the customer keep one, fill in the other. Other discoveries...