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...killer of U.S. babies is whooping cough, which takes a heavier toll than scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles and infantile paralysis combined. Last week, doctors at the American Medical Association meeting in Atlantic City heard reports on 1) a new way to prevent the disease in newborn infants; 2) the serious mental effects of whooping cough...
Prenatal Vaccination. Newborn infants have a natural immunity to many infectious diseases, but they cannot be vaccinated against whooping cough before the age of seven months. Apparent reason: their bodies are incapable of producing the antibodies...
...when the student at the long table in Memorial Hall on the fall registration day asks you to cough up five bucks, don't try to put him off by saying you've already subscribed to the Lampoon--he's only trying to collect money to finance the far-flung activities of the Council...
...curtail both inventories and forward buying. Retailers, already jarred by price ceilings, were in a frenzy over a trial balloon "first draft" of the order. A department store that had hoarded too much in one department might be unable to restock in another unless it disgorged its oversupply. Overall cough-up, if that order should go through: 20-35% of current retail stocks...
...word, which may come to be as terrible as either: subsidy. The Office of Price Administration, knowing that some businessmen could never make a profit under a suddenly imposed and rigidly enforced ceiling, planned to subsidize their losses. This would mean that the public would have to cough up taxes to support some businesses, particularly marginal and inefficient units. Worse, the U.S. would be piling up the cost of Government to keep its cost of living down...