Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such free-style individualists as the American Unitarian Association, the effort was doomed from the start. The writers found widespread Unitarian agreement on only three points: 1) belief in the dignity and promise of man; 2) insistence on "the principle of the free mind"; 3) "a common program of [liberal] social action." On matters theological there seemed almost as many opinions as there were Unitarians; toward God, attitudes ranged from emphatic interest through vagueness and indifference to flat rejection. Sample views...
...representatives of 41 nations, including Russia, and remarked dryly: "Thank God, your purpose here, without recriminations, without undue argument, is solely to do good in the world." The 2,000 doctors, scientists and public health officials had gathered in Washington, D.C. to wage biological warfare against a common enemy, tropical disease...
Slowing Malaria. The best news concerned man's No. 1 enemy in the tropics: malaria. Every year, malaria strikes 300,000,000 people, and kills 3,000,000 of them. But with the now common household spray DDT, "it is a safe statement that at least 90% of the malaria of the world can be wiped out in the next ten years, and that's conservative," said Dr. Fred Soper of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau...
...public should put more of its money into research into chronic diseases, which make old age miserable. The U.S., says Dr. Crampton, has been spending $22 per death for cancer research, $13,000 per death for infantile paralysis, and only a few cents per victim for the most common killer of all, diseases of the heart and arteries...
...decided to sell the public its 29.1% interest (1,000,061 shares) in North American Aviation, Inc. The sale, to be made soon, is in line with G.M.'s policy to get out of companies with which it has no "direct business relationship." (It recently unloaded an 18.9% common stock interest in Bendix Aviation Corp. and 344,000 shares of Greyhound Corp.) To make the separation complete, North American President James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger was moved up to replace Henry Michael Hogan, a G.M. vice president, as chairman of North American's board...