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Promptly at 6 a.m., the boy & girl census takers fell to their task. Some housewives, expecting a complete checkup of their homes, proudly showed results of thorough housecleanings; some thought that the Government should want to know whether their husbands contributed enough to household expenses. Others brought blushes to schoolgirl faces by detailed accounts of marital unhappiness. The canvassers were welcomed with coffee and cakes; the only grumbling came from businessmen who lost trade and had to give their employees full pay for the day. One thorough census taker waited in front of a maternity hospital to find...
...over the horizon John Lewis was laying for him: on June 30 the Government's coal contract expires. Foreign relations were getting no simpler. But Harry Truman put off all such serious matters but one-a request to Congress for $25,000,000 to pay for a loyalty checkup of Government employees...
Like a vigorous man who seldom bothers with doctors, Chicago suddenly decided that it was time for a periodic checkup. It asked the U.S. Public Health Service to give it a thorough going-over. For a year, a group of Government experts tested the city's blood, held a stethoscope to its heart, squinted appraisingly at its South Side. Last week, having finished the examination, the doctors were gravely writing it up for the patient in a 2,000-page report. Chicago, they had found, is a none too healthy city...
Last week a U.S. mission, returned from a checkup of survivors, had a report ready. Its gist: after 18 months, the biological effects of the 1945 Bomb had not disappeared, had not been finally tallied, might still show up in horrible forms years & years from...
...master was in command at Briggs Cage yesterday as next fall's would-be gridiron stars rounded out a week of spring practice. Richard Cresson Harlow, just returned from a medical checkup and a short rest at his Maryland home, made the difference in what turned out to be a session of fierce 'supervised contact...