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...receive a full day's pay. Yet this system has been in operation for the past five years, and it did not prevent polluted gravy last Thursday night. Nor can we expect it to prevent food poisoning in the future. It is impossible to give each employee a medical checkup every day, and if the honor system has failed before, why should it start working...
Hollywood's Jack L. Warner, who had been feeling poorly, dropped in to see his doctor for a checkup, felt better after having his gallstones...
Poison for the Girls. In 1940, the Federal Food & Drug Administration was conducting a drive against "abortion pastes." During a routine checkup, an inspector discovered that Faiman was selling a violet-colored, sweet-smelling paste called "Metro-Vac" containing a poisonous metallic salt. It induced abortions all right, just as many powerful drugs will. But the FDA considers the preparation one of the most dangerous in existence. If the active drug gets into the bloodstream (as it often does), the patient dies...
...Chuck Checkup...
...last April, he promised that ECA would be run on a streamlined, businesslike basis. Last week he took a long step toward making that promise come true. Over the protests of offended career bureaucrats, he gave Comptroller Eric L. Kohler the go-ahead for a tough, continuous financial checkup...