Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much more liberal allotment of funds for direct expenditures in the control of the venereal diseases." Under Josephine Roche, sociologically-minded Assistant Secretary of the Treasury who opened last week's Conference, Dr. Parran has $10,000,000 to carry out the 1937 campaign. Brimming with zest, the conferees last week urged Dr. Parran to ask Congress for another...
...victims of syphilis, the 12,000,000 victims of gonorrhea and the unestimated victims of soft chancre (caused by Streptobacillus ulceris mollis) in the U. S.* that they may reasonably expect the following means of relief during 1937: "1) The appointment of a full-time venereal disease control officer in every State department of health...
...more widespread use of epidemiologic investigations in the control of syphilis...
Soothed Dr. Little, one of whose major jobs is to direct the American Society for the Control of Cancer: "We know so little about how cancer is inherited that there is no cause for fear and dread, and there is no basis for predictions concerning inheritance of cancer in any individual case...
Excerpts: "Beginning with the Fleming valve and the Coolidge X-ray tube, we now have an enormous variety of [electronic] tubes for radio sending, detection and amplification, electric power control or conversion from AC to DC or vice versa, lighting devices, sunshine meters, oscillographs. ... I take particular pleasure in mentioning these practical values, for even the most unimaginative and shortsighted, hardheaded, practical businessman is forced to admit the justification for the pure re-search-of no preconceived practical use whatever in the minds of those who led in its prosecution." Bovine Brains. After thorough study of the manners and aptitudes...