Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visit to the Mayo Clinic: "So far as I could see, I was the only person in that town who wasn't either on wheels or walking around with a string hanging out of his mouth...
...Hyser believes that the Army Dental Corps, "organized not as a rehabilitation agency but rather to take care of routine dental work," can hardly do more than a patch-up job. His solution is to set up some 40 clinics, each one fixing up 200 patients every six-hour day. Clinic personnel would include 75 dentists, 20 hygienists, six surgeons, four radiologists...
...Such a clinic could remouth 60,000 men a year. Chairs would be arranged in three "batteries": 1) the operative battery of ten chairs, turning out 20 inlays an hour; 2) the prosthetic (tooth replacement) battery of eight, making ten bridges an hour; 3) the synthetic filling battery of ten, making 24 fillings an hour. Men with toothless jaws would need special care, but nearly all others, according to Dr. Hyser could be handled on this dental assembly line in bucket-brigade fashion...
...Herald-American's "War Romance Clinic" was born. Editor Malloy launched it amid typical Hearst ballyhoo; the wife of Chicago's Mayor Edward Kelly was persuaded to say for publication, "What a boon it will be . . ."; Herald-American delivery trucks had their sides plastered with promotion ads that screamed, "Soldier, You're Breaking My Heart...
...month and a half old, the "Clinic" is thriving, evidence that intimate goo about other people's troubles is a salable product in war as in peace...