Word: brooders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than 4,000 trained psychiatrists, concentrated in a few areas. Chief problem of the Army, in its effort to keep out wackies, is how to divide 4,000 by 6,253 draft boards. Chief brooder over this tricky psycho-arithmetic problem is redhaired, chunky Colonel Leonard George Rowntree of Philadelphia Institute for Medical Research. Colonel Rowntree's best solution to date: a group of 600 psychiatrists delegated to medical advisory boards in about 50 key cities. These psychiatrists conduct two-day seminars in various regions to tip off local board physicians to neurotic danger signals. As an example...