Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first National Nutrition Conference. Chairman: Federal Security Administrator Paul Vories McNutt. Fellow laborers: Vice President Henry Agard Wallace, who has an expert's knowledge of vitamins. Secretary of Agriculture Claude Raymond Wickard, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Nutritionists Russell Morse Wilder of the Mayo Clinic and Henry Clapp Sherman of Columbia University...
Last week in Buffalo 500 manufacturers, gathered in a "Defense Clinic" to hear how they could help in the defense program, nearly had their heads blown off. Up rose young (32) Francis J. Trecker, OPMite, to tell them that much of the U.S.'s available defense capacity was still idle, that if prime contractors did not begin to farm out part of their defense work the Government would force them to - "and it won't be on your terms...
...sell subcontracting as they had machines. They knew their subject. In 1939 their company (Kearney & Trecker) had started subcontracting with orders from the French Government. In Chicago, San Francisco, all over the country, the Trecker brothers held mass meetings whooping up subcontracting. Last week at Buffalo's "Defense Clinic," Francis saw several subcontracts signed before he left...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes found a patient reading up on his disease. "Look out!" warned the doctor, "or you'll die of a misprint some day." Last week, to replace old-fashioned medical "encyclopedias," a group of eminent physicians, headed by Stomach Specialist Walter Clement Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic, published a series of little books (Help Your Doctor to Help You; Harper; 95?) on five diseases (twelve more are coming). The books, which were displayed for the first time at the College of Physicians meeting in Boston, are for popular consumption, are supposed to contain no medical misprints. They...
...spring day last year, a young woman walked into the clinic of the Boston Lying-in Hospital. She had the "profile," said Dr. Robert Northwall Rutherford, of a woman five months' pregnant. Proudly she told the doctor about the lively kickings of her unborn child, which her husband had also noticed...