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...very honorable people." To Conrad, "she was wife, mother and guardian, besides being his secretary and assistant in his work." During Conrad's frequent bouts with acute malaria and gout, he could endure no nursing except hers (though, with a desperate man's hunger for any conceivable "cure," he for a long time carried "raw potatoes on his person, with the idea that they would collect all the poisonous fluid accumulated in his body...
...suggestion: send foremen and small groups of workers to the fighting fronts; let them bring back eyewitness accounts to their fellow workers. While the roll of "not present" at war posts grew steadily longer, OWI, WMC and five other war agencies conducted overlapping studies of the cause and cure...
...Cure. Biggest job was to persuade Latin Americans to ask for a U.S. aspirin instead of I.G.'s Cafiaspirina-a trade name that had been synonymous with aspirin below the border for 25 years. Sterling hit on the name of Mejoral (derived from mejor, meaning better in Spanish) and let fly with a terrific sales campaign that has left South Americans groggy-but full of Mejoral. During 1942 "Mejoral es mejor," Sterling's new slogan, poured from 230 radio stations in 7,000 half-hour programs, 5,200 quarter-hours, 4,700,000 spot announcements. (In parrot-loving...
About 75% of torpedoed seamen have the jitters for a while. Most cure themselves, but many need treatment. Until last autumn, when the War Shipping Administration, aided by the United Seamen's Service, established its homes, many a man sailed again into dangerous waters still suffering from tremor, double vision or sleeplessness. Chronic alcoholics, chronic psychoneurotics are not admitted to the homes. Any other bona fide seaman needing treatment...
...rate the homes can rehabilitate 4,000 men a year. Treatment is of two kinds: 1) "supportive," i.e., food, rest, quiet, sedation, vitamins, personal attention, recreation, exercise, occupational therapy; 2) psychotherapy by personal interview and group talks, to help a man understand his condition and bring about his own cure...