Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Organized by states and counties shoulder-to-shoulder with the state and county medical societies, the American Society for the Control of Cancer's women's army is first going to collect $1 from at least 2,000,000 U. S. women. With this $2,000,000 the army will finance mass meetings, lectures, radio broadcasts, newspaper and magazine articles, print and distribute tons of literature urging all U. S. women to be on the alert for unusual lumps, sores, bleeding, and telling them what to do about these symptoms if they occur...
...Cancer Control. So eager was the U. S. medical profession to cooperate in this anti-cancer campaign that last week the four important U. S. organizations dealing with cancer-the American College of Surgeons, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the American Association for Cancer Research, and the American Society for the Control of Cancer-formed a Cancer Council, which will answer any reasonable question about cancer sent by doctor or layman to headquarters at No. 1250 Sixth Avenue, New York City. Members of this Cancer Council are: Dr. Frank E. Adair, Memorial Hospital, New York...
Within a few weeks trustees of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, remembering that just after he got out of college he spent four years with the Harvard Cancer Commission, that he was one of the world's authorities on the inherited susceptibility to cancer and a good executive wanting an extra job, hired him as managing director. The Society pays him $9,000 a year (out of which he must pay his traveling expenses), does not object to his work at Jackson Memorial. This renewed security enabled Dr. Little to marry a Phi Beta Kappa...
...that point, inscead of hearkening to Mr. Babst's preliminary squawks, the New Deal froze the situation by dividing import quotas between refined and raw sugar. Mr. Babst was thankful to have the growth stopped but now with the Jones-Costigan Sugar Control Act coming up for extension, he wants the tropical refineries cut off altogether. Three U. S. refineries have been closed, says he, and most of the rest are operating far short of capacity...
Last year 40 books were permanently lost from the Reading Room as compared with the average annual loss of 350 before the turnstile went in. The problem of book control is particularly difficult in Widener because of the large numbers allowed free access to the actual shelves. Pointing out that fully 1000 persons have entry to the stack, Briggs stated that no other library in the world of comparable size has such a free system...