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Scarcely had Commissioner Leadbetter appealed for aid than the New Deal's Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation packed up crates of oranges and grapefruit to send to Maine. Few medicines will help victims of scurvy, and best cure for the disease lies in an abundance of natural fruit juices. But although he appreciated Federal aid, Commissioner Lead-better's medical director, Dr. George Holden Coombs, made it clear that proud Republican Maine could solve her scurvy problem her own way. "Vitamin C," he said, ". . . is present in the potatoes which are raised in large quantities there in Aroostook...
Every mature person worries about cancer, yet few are acquainted with the simple facts of cancer prevention and cure. In an educational attempt to save some of the 150,000 U. S. citizens who are killed by the disease every year, Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little, famed researcher on cancer and heredity and head of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, this week published the first calm, sensible handbook on cancer.* Significant facts...
...disease. But once toxin enters the cord, it somehow becomes transformed into a new poison. "The new substance is not attacked by the present antitoxin," said Dr. Firor. In answer to questions of enthusiastic colleagues, he said that he will shortly try to prepare a second antitoxin which will cure the final stages of tetanus...
Last week TIME surveyed 100 typical weeklies and bi-weeklies in 30 States and found that: 1) Most of them had good business in 1938 and the early part of 1939; 2) boiler-plate and corn-cure ads are disappearing; 3) their news is ably written but editorials are either purely boosterish, overly timid or entirely lacking; 4) many a muted Walter Winchell is doing a bangup job of columning for a few hundred neighbors. Exciting examples: Joseph Chase Allen's "With The Fishermen" in the Martha's Vineyard Gazette (tangy dockside gossip about a picturesque industry); Douglas...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt added her voice to the chorus of the pressure groups last fortnight when, in Washington, she addressed the Conference on the Cause & Cure of War (representing 6,000,000 women) in terms which could easily have been construed as downright belligerent. Said she: "I think we ought to urge upon our own people a strict examination of themselves, to say to them, 'What are you willing to give up from a material standpoint, to keep the world at peace? And what are you willing to do to bring your moral support to bear in favor...